Pollution in the Te Aroha district caused by mining

Hart, Philip

Pollution in the Te Aroha district caused by mining

dc.contributor.author	Hart, Philip
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-14T21:28:12Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-14T21:28:12Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	Whereas miners (and their supporters in the Mines Department) felt constrained by the imposition of environmental controls, many Te Aroha residents were concerned about the purity of their domestic water supply, although a vocal minority was more interested in the possibilities of jobs and money. As mullock and tailings were unavoidable consequences of mining, when farmers had fine silt deposited on their land they combined with town-dwellers to seek the removal of the designation of the Waihou River as a sludge channel. Efforts to revive mining during the depression of the 1930s revived concerns about pollution, and in the following decade the Auckland Smelting Company’s efforts to develop the Tui portion of the field provoked considerable debate about protecting Te Aroha’s water supply amongst officials and within the community. The warden, encouraged by departmental officials, permitted mining, but imposed conditions that its opponents considered to be inadequate and which the company sought to evade.	en_NZ
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Hart, P. (2016). Pollution in the Te Aroha district caused by mining. (Te Aroha Mining District Working papers, No. 6), Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato, Historical Research Unit.	en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn	2463-6266
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10313
dc.language.iso	en	en_NZ
dc.publisher	Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato	en_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Te Aroha Mining District Working Papers	en_NZ
dc.rights	© 2016 Philip Hart	en_NZ
dc.title	Pollution in the Te Aroha district caused by mining	en_NZ
dc.type	Working Paper	en_NZ
uow.relation.series	6	en_NZ