No comment on complaint

Press, 8 December 1976, Page 6

No comment on complaint

A complaint about conditions at the Heathcote County’s dog-dosing strip in Whaka Terrace, Huntsbury, has drawn no comment from the secretary of the Banks Peninsula Hydatids Control Board (Mr W. F. Aydon). Mr Aydon said he was disappointed that he had not been given the opportunity to comment on Mrs C. Alison’s criticism at the time, and did not want the matter taken any further. One person had called at ■ the Heathcote County offices to express support for Mrs Alison’s comments, said the County Clerk (Mr K. D. Stills) yesterday. Mrs Alison said that only one person had contacted her | in support. She had not vet I received a reply from t he; jhydatids dosing officer, after! jhr inquiry to the council. ; The support she had i received, said Mrs Alison, I had emphasised the need for] house-to-house dosing instead I of strip dosing for the urban' area of Heathcote County. ( In July. 1974. new regula-i tions required all dogs in the; Banks Peninsula hydatids control area to be treated for 'hydatids every six weeks. (This applied to both working I dogs and pets. The six-weekly programme j was for dosing with Man(Sonil. which according-to the I National Hydatids Council iwould eliminate sheep measles, if administered correctly. : At that time. Mr Aydon; had said that people had to| 'have their dogs so dosed! because they fell within the! boundary of the control area. It did not matter that the' city was “just across the, fence.” ' Mrs Alison said that it I

[seemed ridiculous to class pets in the lower end of Colombo Street as being in a rural area. In the last Heathcote County rate demands, it had been mentioned that the

council was considering adopting house-to-house dosing, she Jiid, but she had since been told that the matter had been “shelved.” “Surely the money used in this unnecessary six-weekly dosing could be used for house-to-house dosing on a less-intensive programme,” Mrs Alison said.