Fish Offal Dumped In River

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 17, 30 January 1948, Page 5

Fish Offal Dumped In River

Practice Is Forbidden By Health Regulations While a resident at the Heads Was sitting in his car at the wharf the other night admiring the moonlit scene, a truck backed up and the driver heaved,, some bags of what smelled unmistakably like fish offal into the harbour. The resident essayed a mild rebuke, but was told the driver was merely carrying out his employer’s orders. Having had some experience of what happens when this sort of thing travels down the river and comes ashore near where he lives in hot weather, this citizen came along next morning and wanted to know what the Beacon could do about it. Well, all the Beacon could do was to find out from the Health Inspector, Mr A. R. Knights, that there is a law against that sort of thing. Also that at the present time with the threat of poliomyelitis ever present, it is a law with the very strongest claim to strict observance. Others means of disposal suggested by the Health Inspector were that the offal could be dumped well out to sea or, better still, disposed of to farmers as pig fodder, a use for which he said he believed it would be quite suitable.