Never before seen documents show a senior government official feared children could die if they came into contact with toxic chemicals that were pouring directly onto a popular New Plymouth beach.
The documents were uncovered as part of research for the paper Silencing Paritūtū which claims there was a long-standing campaign to suppress evidence about the risks of dioxin emissions from a herbicide plant at Paritūtū during the 1960s.
Our Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin has more.
