Heating loans
Sir, — Your editorial (October 26) suggesting that loans be extended to cover the purchase of solid fuel appliances needs closer public scrutiny. The Clean Air Council 1979 Report said that approved solid fuelburning appliances were oversized for the average house and “unless a small coal-fired space heater becomes widely available, it is not possible for urban air pollution to be minimised and at the same time, for coal to have a future for home heating in the South Island”. It seems that original “approvals" for space heaters were nominal, just a measure to pacify the West Coast coal lobby. Large space heaters operate mostly at low heat outputs and then they seem to act as gas generators drifting noxious fumes onto nearby sections. One household I know used to burn mostly scrap plastic on their closed stove until I told them that fumes given off could be the equivalent of poison gas. — Yours, etc.,
PATRICK NEARY. October 26, 1982
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