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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1936, Page 8

"Bailiff" also writes in a similar strain. q\

MOA POINT AND CRASS FIRES

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Your correspondent, who signs himself "H.W." comments on my complaining of grass fires at Moa Point, one on the hill and the other on the Aerodrome. Both fires he contends were started under instructions. That being the case the person who gave instructions regarding the fires has made a serious error of. judgment. He also states that the fires . were well guarded but forgets the fact that there is no control over floating smoke, and on this particular day the wind seemed to change rapidly. He says that the idea was to save sending across gorse, reeds, and seeds down the chute. This is where the error of judgment occurred. Had these reeds, etc., been sent down the chute and then transferred on to the rocks they would have floated out to sea, thus causing no annoyance to anybody and no danger of fire spreading. In either case humanity was not even considered, viz., men, women, and children suffering from the effects of the smoke. The City Council was rung up in regard to the subject, and the person who had this matter in hand simply said that it was an Act of God, yet your correspondent says these fires were started under instructions —something radically wrong somewhere.

During the summer months some persons have been galloping two horses up and down the Lyall Bay beach at the eastern end. Recently one of these horses dropped dead and laid on the beach all night and up to 4 p.m. the following day, before it was removed, and all this happened in the heat of the sun, the horse lying there surrounded by flies and children gathering round it. Altogether, with the grass fires, smoke, blasting operations, and a dead horse on the beach, the residents, also the general public of Wellington, have good reasons for complaint.—l am, etc.,

F. C. BARDSLEY.