"THAT PUMP"
Sir—l am forced to verse by m? troubles, and wonld be f**»*£* lie words I Have penned reproduced in your columns: Harvey Street West is a place known Fofan atmosphere certainty rural For it's peace and it's quiet all the d t y f d too-ra-la With the birds singmg looral. But alas! This quiet scene is now a -has been" . All the folk who live there have hump. , , ,i,„;,. Their nerves are all shattered, tnen tempers are battered. For the council installed there a pump. A pump which ostensibly (not reprehensibly) Should not create such a am But it chatters and clamours, u bangs and it hammers. _ O councillors! It is a sin. So please do your best to give us a rest . „,___ From this loud and unceasing k«rplumt)" Which 'clatters and shatters our nerves into tatters This clanging and clamorous pump.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13237, 13 January 1941, Page 2
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