Noise
Sir, — It is much easier to complain about the noise from an occasional concert than to confront thoughtless or malicious neighbours who mutilate the air with stereos, barking dogs, chainsaws or motor mowers. There is a continuing relationship to consider. An impending community mediation service should make this aspect less difficult. Noise is subjective, difficult to classify and impossible to control satisfactorily except at its source. The Clean Air Society is concerned at the growing levels of sound which the public is still enduring unnecessarily. Painful levels of relayed voices at shopping malls spring to mind, and deafening music at the cinema. Who approves unmusical motor horns, continously sounded, which should never have been invented, let alone distributed? Add to this helicopters, growing numbers of container trucks and motor- cycles, and it is clear that without our strenuous resistance, it will be peace, not us, that will depart. — Yours, etc., JANET R. HOLM, President, N.Z. Clean Air Society. March 2, 1984.
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Press, 6 March 1984, Page 20
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