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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21808, 13 June 1936, Page 14

The customary serenity of proceedings at the Te Awamutu Borough Council meeting was rudely disturbed recently by the blare of a dance band and the accompanying noise from a merry throng of dancers in the Town Hall, which is separated from the council chamber by a thin wooden wall. Members endured the situation philosophically for some time, until a particularly strident blast from the band prompted Mr Montefiore to enquire who was responsible for the letting of the Town Hall for a dance during a council meeting. The town clerk said that he was responsible. He had been assured that the dance, which was a private one, would be a very quiet affair, apd as the council required money for renovations to the Town Hall furniture he thought the rent would assist. A witness at the Manurewa water enquiry was having some difficulty in deciphering a written report on the chemical contents of water from a certain bore, when the chairman, the Hon. J. Alexander, M.L.C., said: “Here, let me see it. “I'm a very bad writer; I surely ought to be able to understand it.” After a little screwing of the eyes the chairman was successful in giving a true interpretation. .