INVADED BY RATS.
TROUBLE IN CITY ORGAN LOFT
The latest problem to trouble the Wellington. City' Corporation is the 'invasion by rats of the eity organ at the Town Hall, due, it is believed in some quarters, to the large quantities of foodstuffs which are left over after social functions in. the hall. Frequently accumulations of refuse from such functions are left in the backyard for some little time after the event. A great deal of leather and animal skin is used in connection with the stops over the air holes. These flaps, which move upward under, air pressure, and. fall immediately the pressure is eased, are made out of very special picked leather, which, is, no doubt, rather to the rpdents, who have instituted a campaign against municipal music. The city organist (Mr Bernard F. Page) states that a good deal of damage has already' been done to the leathers of the pipes, and if it is allowed to continue will interfere with the functioning of some of them. The custodian has already set a couple of traps among the pipes, and on, Sunday' evening when the organist, was play ring Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song” the frightened squeals of a trapped rat could he distinctly heard. —Dominion.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 September 1924, Page 12
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207INVADED BY RATS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 September 1924, Page 12
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