Pollution lectures in a book

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 19

Pollution lectures in a book

The time for effective action on pollution is now, and the steps to be taken and the costs to be met must be the responsibility of all New Zealanders, writes Sir Malcolm Burns, Principal of Lincoln College, in an introduction to “Environment and Industry.”

; This book, published by the I New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, contains 11 papers delivered at Canterbury branch meeting by authorities on various aspects of the pollution of the environment. Several of the papers were summarised in reports published in “The Press” last year. The stage is set by questions raised in a general survey of the quality of the environment by Mr C. G. Martin, a Christchurch chemical engineer. Then follow papers on the polluting effects of various industries and domestic wastes. Sir Malcolm Burns makes the point that pollution in New Zealand is not more severe because, in large part, affairs have been influenced by sound work done by industrial chemists and engineers, and. more recently, by the universities and research organisations. He commends the Institute of Chemistry' on its positive action on pollution problems long before the environment became a matter of public 'concern, and the decision of

the Canterbury branch to publish the lectures as a book. “It highlights the continuing interest of the institute in matters of public concern, and stresses the competence of its members to solve the problems of pollution,” says Sir Malcolm Burns. The book, which costs $1.95, may be obtained from the Registrar of the institute, P.O. Box 1926, Christchurch.