COMPLAINTS OF SMOKE
REFUSE DESTRUCTOR AT NORTH SHORE COMMITTEE TAKES ACTION .Following a series of complaints from district residents, the management committee of the North Shore refuse destructor last evening decided to take action. A special meeting will be held to confer with a hospital engineer, an inspector of the Health Department and other experts. Complaints of smoke nuisance from the destructor had been received from thel.Takapuna Western Area Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association, Messrs. Russell. McVeagh, Bagnall and Mackay, on behalf of Bishop Cleary, and Mr. J. Guiniven, a member of the Takapuna Borough Council. Mr. H. P. Collins, sanitary inspector for tile Takapuna Borough, furnished a report stating that the destructor bad been under daily supervision. He gave details of his observations from September 24 to October 16. In the SS hours during which the destructor was working the cause of complaint was in evidence for 12 hours. It affected with headaches people employed in strawberry gardens, while the adjoining householders in Dominion and Karaka Streets suffered from the unpleasant stench. The trouble arose when the wind was from the south to south-west and north-north-east.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 800, 22 October 1929, Page 11
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186COMPLAINTS OF SMOKE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 800, 22 October 1929, Page 11
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