DRIFTING GAS
Residents move out (N’.Z. Press Association) HASTINGS, March 30. Occupants of some houses I on the outskirts of Have-| lock North left their homes; last night when a pungent, gas drifted over their properties. Some residents awoke with streaming eyes and sore throats. The gas was chloropicrin, or tear gas, used by fruit growers to fumigate soil. Mr M. Mitchell, a poultry farmer, said his production was down and his fowls were spluttering and coughing. He had awakened coughing, at 3 a.m. Mr Mitchell said some of his neighbours had left their homes. Mr P. Hawley' said the gas was used by fruitgrowers to kill root fungi. It was applied by l a contractor. “Because of the calm night, the gas just hung in the air,” he said. “Usually the wind blows it away and there are no effects.”
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33189, 31 March 1973, Page 2
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