SCRUBBING FLOORS
A TOWN CLERK'S DUTY
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "Tho Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day.
"I scrubbed the floor of the-Council Chambers a fortnight ago," declared the town clerk of Northeote, Mr. H. W. Wilson, when a discussion arose about the cleanliness of the room. "It is part of my duties, and I have done it for the past eight years."
_ Councillor T. Joll, in raising the question of renovations to the Council Chambers, said the state of the room was disgraceful,- and he doubted if. such a filthy condition existed in any other borough. The Mayor (Mr. E. Martin): "You should have been to Taka'puna some time ago." Councillor A. W. Christmas: "Yon are the only town clerk who ever scrubbed floors." The borough overseer was instructed to make arrangements for the floor t» be scrubbed Tegularly,
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1931, Page 10
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