POLLUTION OF STREAMS.
EFFECT OF FLAX REFUSE.
Among the remits at the Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union at was the following from the executive “That the Pollution of Water Bill be considered by the conference.”
Mr Wilson, after explaining the cases for and against the proposed legislation, stated that anything that affected the dairying or flaxmilling industries affected the. whole of the Dominion.
Mr J. Morrison said that it would be better to leave the law as it was.
Mr Law stated that he had known instances where through Sax refuse being in a stream there bad been no fish found in the stream, whereas fish were found to be plentiful in streams where washings from a dairy drained* He stated that on one occasion a butcher had purchased cattle which had access to a stream la which flaxmill refuse had entered. Subsequently the f butcher complained that the meat was tainted. It then dawned upon the speaker that the cause was the cattle drinking water which contained flaxmill refuse. It was eventually decided that the matter be referred to the Dominion Conference.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1104, 3 June 1913, Page 2
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184POLLUTION OF STREAMS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1104, 3 June 1913, Page 2
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