Overcoming odour

Press, 28 January 1988, Page 40

Overcoming odour

Sir,—l read the letter by Mr P. V. Neary, honorary secretary of the Clean Air Society (January 23), with a great deal of interest. Could Mr Neary now ask Mr P. V. Neary, chairman of the Christchurch Transport Board, when his board is going to do something about the evil-smelling odour that is belched forth, seven days a week, from the buses? Talk about pollution — surely this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. — Yours, etc., M. G. SMITH. January 25, 1988. Sir, —The latest comments from P. V. Neary (January 23) regarding the overcoming of odours has several parallels — for Government departments read local bodies, and for sewage treatment plants read Transport Board buses. If Mr Neary is genuine in his quest for clean air, why do the buses still pollute the ground-level population? Surely someone on the board is capable of arranging for the exhausts to be extended to the back and over the top of each bus. Hot air does rise and from that height would reduce the smell at ground level. — Yours, etc. J. SEWARD. January 23, 1988.