I litrerent people view work through Afferent eyes-sotne love it and never do it. others hate it and spend all their lives dodging it, others feel impelled to do their duties in varying degrees of enthusiasm-hut Napier surely holds the record lor enthusiasm on the part of its civic officials (re. marks the Telegraph). One night two officials of the council were encountercd making in the rain an inspection of certain streets in southern parts of the city. A pressman plodding wearily homewards encountered them and di-e'w- attention to the muddy condi. lion of a certain footpath over which there is -always a. great deal of traffic and on which, during the next day, there would be thousands going to see the shield match. At 5.15 the next morning that same apology for a foot, path had been nicely coated with fine shingle, thus putting an end to the nuisance and many bitter complaints from all users of the path.
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Grey River Argus, 17 June 1925, Page 6
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