Comments on: Tell us it’s not true, Mayor Arnott

By: Maxine Boag

Maxine Boag — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:10:48 +0000

I’m not the Mayor or CEO, but according to today’s paper, use of the offending toxin has ceased forthwith . I’d say it’s a direct response to circulating this information from the Greens. Thanks Dave Head: both myself and Tony Jeffery copied your email and expressed our concerns to the Mayor and CEO yesterday. Maybe they already knew, but the outcome was what we all wanted.

I’m curious as to why it was in the particular parks mentioned: was it for the Croquet green at Whitmore Park, the Marewa Bowls? Taradale?? And what about the other non-mentioned parks – what does the trick of killing “pests” there?

Maybe instead of buying a pesticide, Council could ask the various clubs and codes to get their players to grab the worms making the mess and pop them in a nearby worm farm!

By: Dave Head

Dave Head — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:59:15 +0000

From: The Chief Executive Officer. ***##** City Council
To: Parks & Reserves Staff.
STAFF IN CONFIDENCE.

The use of the highly effective poison, Endosulfan , is part of our program for sports parks known as ;

Super Horrible Insecticide Treatment on the Park
-other wise know as S..H.I.T. on the park.

While the issue of dog dropping has been raised, it is clear that at least they are usually visibly and easily avoided, especially on a sports ground where the main users are young ‘nimble people.

However the use of Endosulfan is also part of our new program: :

Careful Research Aggravating Poisoning on our young sportspeople. Or;
CRAP on our young sportspeople.

Any feed back is not welcome -as usual

Niles Tinker
**### City Council C.E.O..