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9. CAMPING SITES.
During the year licences were issued for the placing
of caravans at the following sites
(a) Land in Crescent Roado
(b) Site of NoSo 22 and 23 Gordon Road
(Demolished Houses).
(c) Rear of No. 222 Park Roado
By the end of the year the land in Crescent Road had
ceased to be used for the purpose, but each of the other
sites was in useQ
Licences in all three cases were issued only after it
had been ascertained that no objection would be raised
under the Town Planning Act to the stationing of caravans
on the sites.
10. ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION AND SMOKE ABATEMENT,,
Taking the year as a whole it is doubtful if any improvement
in the quality of fuel supplied to local industrial
undertakings occurred during 1950, and constant vigilance
and advice was necessary in order to minimise the amount of
smoke and grit emitted to the atmosphere,,
Considerable difficulties and delay were encountered
in obtaining replacements for steam raising plant and grit
arrester installations,,
Improvement in the standard of firing and maintenance
of furnaces and boilers would in all probability be achieved
if sufficient experienced stokers were available, or if more
of the present employees would attend classes of instruct
tion organised at Technical Colleges. Employers should
give careful consideration to ways and means of encouraging
employees to become skilled stokers,,
The observations of atmospheric pollution, from the
gauge in Canbury Gardens, showed that during 195° there was
an increase over 1 949 in the aggregate amount of deposited
matter - 266 tons as against 245.97 tons - a monthly average
of 22.165 tons compared with 20.5 tons, (after making due
allowance for the month of August 1949 when the apparatus
was out of commission).
As from February, 1950, both chimney stacks of the
Power Station were in use, and this fact may explain to
some degree, the increase referred to above (particularly
in the third quarter).
The rainfall recorded showed a large increase over
1949; 25.70 ins. as compared with 19-05 ins. and the
effects of this on the recorded deposit cannot be overlooked.
Tables A and B following show the records obtained at
the Canbury Gardens station.
On 1st July, 1950 observations commenced on two other sites,
namely, Tiffin Girls" School and the Cemetery.
As might be expected, the pollution recorded at each
of these two sites is less than that at Canbury Gardens.
The difference in recordings between Canbury Gardens and
Tiffin Girls' School is interesting and worthy of notice.
Both stations lie in the same sector from the main sources