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Big bucks poured into fluoridating our water
Health officials are gearing up for a massive new campaign to persuade Rotorua residents and decision-makers to add fluoride to local water supplies. The Lakes District Health Board has secured $31,000 – including $25,000 from the Ministry of Health – to fund the two-year campaign which will involve blind water tasting activities at City Focus, […]
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Fluoridation to go ahead in Ranfurly
Ranfurly water will be fluoridated. The Maniototo Community Board yesterday approved the move with a 3-2 vote, with chairman Richard Smith and board member Sue Umbers voting against fluoridation. Mr Smith told members he believed the 250 children under the age of 12 should have the benefit of fluoride and the board could either fluoridate […]
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Community board okays fluoridation for the Maniototo
The Maniototo Community Board has decided to fluoridate Ranfurly’s public drinking water supplies. The board members voted three to two for fluoridation at their meeting in Ranfurly yesterday. Chairman Richard Smith said the board took the view that fluoridation would protect public health. He said the residents had given the board a mandate at the […]
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Cromwell Community Board decides against fluoridation of water
The Cromwell Community Board yesterday decided not to fluoridate the town’s water. Fluoridation was raised at the board meeting yesterday but board members decided against it even though residents had voted in favour of it in a referendum held with the local body elections last year. Board chairman Neil Gillespie said that when council submissions […]
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Fluoride still sensitive topic
Fluoride remains a sensitive topic in Methven despite a referendum this month producing a decisive result. Methven Community Board members discussed the result at their six-weekly meeting yesterday, where board chairman Martin Nordqvist said he was pleased with the result. “Fortunately 632 expressed a common sense approach to the fluoride poll,” Mr Nordqvist said. Board […]
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Methven: Disappointment in anti-fluoride camp
Disappointed and surprised was how Methven anti-fluoride campaigner Phil Johnson was feeling yesterday. But Methven Fluoride Action Group member Mr Johnson said the fact that 75% of Methven people responded in the referendum proved that it had been the right thing to do. “They thought it was worth it so that justified it,” he said. […]
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Council to hear opposing fluoride experts
Experts from both sides of the fluoride debate will update the Dunedin City Council on the issue, after residents in the city’s northern communities opposed to fluoridation asked for a referendum. Opponents wanted a referendum on whether water containing fluoride should be piped northwards in a new $9.3 million scheme that is replacing small, local, […]
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Anti-fluoride group denied referendum
Anti-fluoride campaigners on Dunedin’s northern coast look set to be denied the public referendum they want on the issue, despite a 222-signature petition they collected. Instead, the Ministry of Health and Public Health South will be invited to brief elected officials on the public health reasons to fluoridate public water supplies and address arguments opposing […]
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Anti-fluoridation information ‘propaganda’
The Ashburton District Council will publicise anti-fluoride information prior to a Methven referendum on the issue later this year. This has raised the ire of the Canterbury District Health Board, which plans to ask the council to reconsider its approach. The council claims it is neutral in the contentious fluoride debate, and will put “both […]
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Methven: Dental surgeon blasts fluoride call
The Methven Community Board was branded as “absolutely gutless” by Ashburton dental surgeon Justin Wall when Methven anti-fluoride campaigners won the right to a referendum yesterday. The campaigners finally had their day in the sun, successfully getting the town’s board behind a referendum. Campaigners Margaret and Philip Johnson have been protesting against fluoride in the […]
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