Molasses dumped at tip
PA Tauranga About 360,000 gallons of molasses has been dumped at the Mount Maunganui rubbish tip. It was part of the cargo of the Bowoon'lll, which arrived at the Port of Tauranga from Newcastle, Australia, on April 30.
I The molasses became con-) taminated with diesel fuel, and instead of being used by) the Mount Maunganui firm, Agri-feeds, to make liquid stock-food supplement as in-) tended, it was poured into a specially dug pond at thei tip-
About 90 tanker loads — 1200 cubic metres of the black, treaclv substance —
oozed slowly civer the tip face, filling a 40m by 40m excavation. j
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Press, 14 June 1978, Page 13
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