SPRAY COMPLAINT
CIV.Z. Press Association) NELSON, February 24. A Nelson doctor will seek an injunction against the Nelson City Council to stop it from aerial-spraying gorse within a mile of his 10-acre property in Maitai Valley. Dr C. H, Belton said
today that his property had suffered damage from indiscriminate weed-spraying three times in the last four months. Last week gorse on low foothills in a proposed golf course in a Nelson city reserve was sprayed by helicopter for the council’s
reserves department Dr Belton’s property is opposite the course, at the entrance to the Shariands Creek Valley. A flourishing garden on his property today looked as if it had been blitzed with weedkiller. Leeks and silver beet were heavily spotted, and lettuce were beginning to rot. Two hundred yards away, golden brown gorse, willows and other trees showed the after-effects of direct spraying with 245 T and a defoliant. “I’m a reasonable person but I’ve had enough,” said Dr Belton. “This is the third time we’ve been sprayed in four months.” He said that on the first occasion spraying by the Forest Service killed or damaged about 300 of his young pine trees.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33777, 25 February 1975, Page 2
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