GHOST LAID.
, TITLES OFFICE MYSTERY. NOTHING SUPERNATURAL. MELBOURNE, Jan. 3. The “Ghost” of the Titles Office, •which has been heard by postmen when clearing the boxes, lias been laid. For eight years the mystery of the ghost of the Titles Office has worried some people, but there is nothing supernatural about it. Between the big blocks, of which the walls are built, an open space has been left. Idle walls are, to all intents and purposes. double. In the wall at intervals ordinary ventilator gratings have been inserted, but between the outer and the inner gratings a series of strips of celluloid have been inserted, apparentlv with the idea of allowing the wind to blow through both gratings, while any possible dust should be dejected. The sound of the ghostly “walk” is the tapping of these thick slips of celluloid one against the other. It is all very, simple. The. wind comes at an angle to the side of the building.. It open s the strips of the first ventilator, and sighs along between the outer and the inner wall, flapping the celluloid as it goes.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 January 1925, Page 4
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186GHOST LAID. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 January 1925, Page 4
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