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81. SMOKE ABATEMENT.
During the year, 130 smoke observations were earned out on factory chimneys
and notices were served with respect to the 19 offences registered.
We have continued to take an interest in the special difficulties of the electricity
generating station at Creekmouth and confidently hope that a solution of the
present difficulties will be found.
A special Chimney Emissions Committee of the Electricity Commission has
been investigating the grit emission problem, and we hope that the report will
indicate how conditions may be improved.
The two additional 75,000 kilowatt sets now in course of construction will be
fitted with chain grate stokers and grit arresting equipment. With these operating
we hope there will not be any increase in the grit emission from this generating
station.
The chimney stacks to this new boiler house are to be 250 feet high. Further,
the stacks to the pulverized fuel installation are to be increased in height by 75 feet,
to a total height of 185 feet. This will, we expect, lead to greater diffusion of the
gases.
Experiments with a high velocity gas-washer have been in progress, and, as a
result, we are advised that a complete unit to be installed on two pulverized fuel
boilers will be in operation by the summer of 1932.
32. PREMISES AND OCCUPATIONS WHICH CAN BE CONTROLLED BY
BYE-LAWS OR REGULATIONS.
(a) Houses Let in Lodgings.—Supervision is exercised over the small number
of tenements in the town and reasonable home conditions obtain.
(b) Common Lodging Houses.—One hundred and twenty visits were paid to the
two common lodging houses, four of the visits being made at night. Eighteen
defects were discovered and eleven notices served.
(c) Tents, Vans and Sheds.—There are 10 occupied van dwellings, which are
located in yards where water supply and sanitary accommodation are provided.
(d) Underground Sleeping Rooms.—There are no such occupied rooms in the
district.