Casino facts to be sought

Press, 12 May 1981, Page 6

Casino facts to be sought

The Waimairi County Council should oppose the establishment of a casino in New Zealand, Cr I. G. Clark told a meeting of the council’s finance committee last evening.

Cr Clark wants the council to write to the South Island Promotion Association and the Minister of Tourism (Mr Quigley) expressing its opposition to casinos. , Committee members decided to leave the matter until the next finance committee meeting as they felt that they did not have enough information -bnkcasinos. .

Although some councillors said that they agreed with Cr Clark many felt that' they could not speak for Waimairi residents about casinos.

Cr R. W. Skjellerup said that the tourist industry had changed in New , Zealand. People no longer wanted to sit and look, they wanted to participate. Pollution

More “concrete" information on what the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company plans

to do about odours” coming from its Bel- ’ fast freezing works has been sought by the committee. The council’s chief health inspector, Mr G. F. Manton, told the committee that Belfast residents had been complaining for some time about the odour from the freezing works, most of which seemed to come from the rendering plant. The company had said that 4 ” it was working on “containing and controlling” the ! odour in the near future.

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A headline in “The Press’), on May 9 incorrectly said that a group of local-body councillors had made a protour statement. The councillors had issued a statement dissociating themselves from a telegram signed by their respective mayors or chairmen asking the Government to stop the Springbok tour. Two of the councillors’ names were printed incorrectly. They should have read: Crs B. E. Cossar and A. B. Harman. The errors are regretted. ; • -E .