Posted on 3-2-2003
Anti-spray Auckland
Actions
Check out the latest on legal action to stop the spraying, on the No Spray Website www.geocities.com/no_spray/media_release_30jan03.htm
Legal case can be made says Sir Geoffrey Palmer
URGENT CALL FOR ACTION
In order to initiate the Legal Action to stop the spraying we all need to write to the Waitakere City Council Manager of Field Services to ask him to abate the nuisance (the spraying in this case) under the Health Act.
This is a simple regulatory procedure that doesn't need the Council's approval. It is the Manager of Field Services' job to issue abatement notices. That is the first stage of taking action under the Health Act. If MAF refuses to abate the nuisance then Council has to decide whether to go to the District Court. (If you live in Auckland City or on the North Shore you will need to write to the equivalent person at either of those City Councils. At this stage we do not have a name and address. Please let me know if you find this information).
PLEASE WRITE TO: Max Wilde, Manager of Field Services, Waitakere City Council, Private Bag 93109, Henderson, Waitakere City
Max Wilde needs as many personal accounts of health problems caused by the aerial spraying as he can get as soon as possible. Once he has them he can then assess the need to call MAF to abate the nuisance under the Health Act.
Email can't be used as evidence. Therefore you must send a signed, personal letter to the above address.
Please tell him:
1) What your symptoms are/were
2) Why you believed that the aerial spray had caused them
3) What you did about it
4) If you contacted your doctor, what s/he said or did
5) If you contacted MAF or Aer'aqua, what they told you and did about it
6) How aerial spraying impacts on your life.
If you have put up with symptoms and not complained it is also important to tell him. He knows you can't prove that it's the spray that causes the symptoms but he will, from the weight of letters, be able to see that it is causing a nuisance.
Please pass this message on to everyone you can think of. A lack of letters to this person will hold up the process of getting the spraying stopped.
Also please send a copy to Hana Blackmore of the Community Advisory Group who is collecting all the data on people's health effects (even if you have already filled in her Health Reporting Form).
Post to: Hana Blackmore, PO Box 25743, St Heliers, Auckland or Fax to: 528 3322.
SOME MORE URGENT ACTION
Caucus meets this Tuesday at Parliament.
We need to lobby all the Labour MPs before then - deluge them. They have power in caucus.
Tell them: "The health risks of aerial spraying have been underestimated in MAF's Health Risk Analysis. We need to stop aerial spraying while a full analysis of health effects is carried out by an independent body."
Tell them your experiences/views of being aerially sprayed with Foray 48B. Don't forget to tell them that AERIAL SPRAYING EQUALS NO LABOUR VOTE. I know many of you will not be voting Labour - BUT HAVE YOU TOLD THEM SO?
Also Fax your local MPs at their electorate offices. Helen Clark: 846 4354 Chris Carter: 835 0945 David Cunliffe: 827 3721 Judith Tizard: 360 2775 Marian Hobbs: 04 801 7866
HELP NEEDED
Now that areas on the North Shore are being sprayed help is needed to distribute WASP's Information Sheet SOME THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE AERIAL SPRAYING. So far all these areas have had is the MAF propaganda in their letterboxes. Helpers are needed to photocopy and distribute the sheet to letterboxes in Whenuapai and Hobsonville. Also to stand outside the Beach Haven school at home time and hand out the sheet to parents. If you can help please phone Helen on 827 2516.
People are also needed to write letters to The Editor, North Shore Times Advertiser, PO Box 33235, Takapuna, or Fax: 486 6700 to let people know about the effects of the spray - how it has affected you, to counterract all the MAF propaganda.
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