The siren on the Ferry Building, Auckland, which sounds four times a day, provided Mr. H. W. van Loon with material for repeated jokes in the course of his addresses at Auckland. “I think it is the loudest, noisiest siren I ever heard,’’ lie said. “When the passengers on the Franconia heard ft first as we were coming in the other day, they thought we must have struck an iceberg or something. If it takes all that horrible noise to blow people to work in New Zealand, I am glad I am not an employee in this country.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18333, 27 February 1934, Page 11
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