DESTRUCTOR SMOKE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 16

DESTRUCTOR SMOKE

NORTH SHORE COMPLAINTS PETITION IN CIRCULATION “This petition is framed in a conciliatory manner, but your petitioners intend to exercise their legal rights in the event of satisfactory remedial measures not being put into operation.” Thus runs the concluding paragraph of a petition that is being freely signed by ratepayers and residents near the joint North Shore destructor at Takapuna. Addressed to the Takapuna Borough Council, as the administrating authority for the joint committee of management, the petition alleges that a serious nuisance has resulted through the smoke from the stack and from the noxious vapours coming from the destructor. It is further alleged that property values in the neighbourhood have been | depreciated, and that definite cases of | prospective sales having fallen through ! on account of the existence of the destructor can be quoted, j The destructor began dealing with ! refuse some six months ago, and will j eventually handle the garbage of the ■ Devonport, Takapuna and Xorthcote j Boroughs. The latter body has not i yet sent any refuse for destruction, al- ! though it has committed itself to about I £ 1,000 as the borough’s share of the expenditure to date.