Anti-Climax!
A Bath Corporation employee, R. Hatherall, fled when he found in his office a drumlike parcel ticking ominously. Hatherall called a policeman, who called-the police station, who called an explosives expert and meantime cleared the street of people. Then, while the crowd watched fearfully, a man from the waterworks arrived, went into the office and came out with the parcel underneath his arm. “It’s only a machine for reading meters,” he said. The crowd went home.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 60, 4 March 1949, Page 6
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77Anti-Climax! Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 60, 4 March 1949, Page 6
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