The Plunket Committee meets this morning in the City Council Chambers at 10.30 o’clock. The hotel guest was thoroughly annoyed. People were running backwards and forwards along the corridor outside his room making a terrible noise. So he took the telephone and spoke to the manager’s office. “I can’t get to sleep with all this noise going on,” he complained angrily. “I'm sorry, sir,’’ replied an excited clerk, “but I’m afraid we can’t control the movements of the fire brigade.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 296, 15 December 1939, Page 11
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