Fluoridation
Sir, — There is no reason why we should have fluoride in our Christchurch city water supply. We have the purest water in New Zealand: let us keep it so. I do not need fluoride, I do not want it, and I jolly well do not want to have to pay for it. To put it in the water and maintain it with about 19 pumping stations is going to be very costly to me as a ratepayer and I object. The rates increased again this year. We can expect at least 15 per cent and upwards increase each year so let the council forget fluoride and fix the footpaths or roads. These come before fluoride surely, for children can have fluoride tablets if desired. — Yours, etc., JACK HOLT. June 14, 1979. Sir, — There are many valid scientific reasons against fluoridation. That anyone should even contemplate introducing such an expensive, wasteful, clumsy, unnecessary scheme at this time of economic disaster, seems to me to be nothing short of lunacy. They must
have been brainwashed. — Yours, etc., J. A. D. ANDERSON. June 14, 1979.
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