BEACH RUBBISH

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 12, 29 January 1937, Page 6

BEACH RUBBISH

Are Napier Deposits Unhealthy/ COMPLAINT TO C0UNCIL Complaiuts by visitors and residents that the collection of decomposed leaves at the foot of the outlet pipe from the children' s pa^dling pool on the Marine Parade, Napier, may be injurious to the health, of the children who play nearby were referred this morning to the chairman of the reserves committee of the Napier Borough Council, Mr A. H. D. Mayne. He stated that it was well-known by the council' that Buch rubbish did eollect on the beach, but no complaiuts had been made oi the matter previously, and that it was periodicaJly cleared away. At times, the leaves, which have been blown into the padcUing pool, mixed with dirt and gravel, and released on to the beach when the pool is cleared, have collected in large quintities, and the result is a thick mass of decaying vegetation, in which many of the smaller children cannot be prevented from trainpling. No actual complamt that the rubbish is unhealthy had been made, but patents are anxious that the position should be clarilied, jn viejy of possible infection. During the extended holidays, when the picture theatres an* not available to younger children, many of them have formed the habit of making the beach and the paddling pool, with the cliildren's playground adjoining, a daily place of amusement. Small children, who do not under stand that deposits of such nature may b© unhealthy, have been observed 1 piaying among the lecayed matter itself, and a grave doubt as to the wisdom of allowing such deposits to eollect has been raised in the minds of the parents. When asked if the council had ever considered the possibjlity of extending the outlet pipe so that it reached completely to the sea, Mr Mayne said that the idea had never been entertamed as complaints jn this direetion.had not come to its notice. He did not know that anything would be done, but said that if the deposit near the pipe were growing large, an employee of the council would be sent to remove it.