FOG HORNS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 190, 13 August 1928, Page 6

FOG HORNS.

Before referring you to by-laws, ordinary laws or unjust laws, I would like to comment upon the cause of my reference thereto, fog horns. These accursed, thricedamned monstrosities, these n e rve-rackinjr, sleep-destroying inventions of the devil, would cause anyone to swear. They should be relegated to the limbo of forgotten things (I forget where I culled this phrase). These antiquated, obsolete pests, these nuisances to a long-suffering people, the inefficiency oi which is only equalled by their infernal howling, should be utterly destroyed and cast out from the sight of man. Let some persuasive benefactor induce the Department of Defence to contribute a few Mills' bombs for a good cause, and I personally will cast the first one; this, however, I suppose, is too much to expect from a moribund community that permit® such a flagrant violation of its rights—the right to sleep in peace. A person who keeps a howling dog is, at the instigation of • suffering neighbour, induced by a facetious magistrate to part with it. But these—these (words fail me) —these diabolical abortions of engineering invention that are infinitely, infernally worse than forty thousand howling dogs, what of them? In the excitement of mr righteous anger, I have somewhat overlooked the legal enactments against nuisances—section, subsection or clause—but if you turn up the Directory—or is it the Year Book? —you will find it there—maybe. Yours more in sorrow than in an^er. MASTER MARINER (perhaps).