A TIMELY CLOSURE
EXPERIENCE IN THE CHAIR
The Chamber of Commerce meeting. had reached that we'll known stage (particularly to the press) where everyone was either thinking of going home or thinking of something elses to talk about. All the main business had, bee'n dealt with and a few were venturing remarks on subjects the ideas dying in the budBut not long before the chairman had been holding forth 011 the good work the Borough Council had done during its term —the yeni had been a good one and a handsome ercdil was shown. Mr Joe ..Creeke rose and addressed the Chair in this fashion: "Mr Chairman, it interests me to hear that the borough has a good credit. Not long ago," he continued weightily, "I approached the Mayor about giving water supply to the, Heads and he told me that there, was no money to do the work —now how do you explain that ?''
"Er . . the Mayor would be right' 1 said the chair witli a smile and with'barely a break —"Well if there is no further business I declare the meeting closed."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 299, 30 April 1941, Page 5
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184A TIMELY CLOSURE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 299, 30 April 1941, Page 5
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