Excuse For Late Nights
In the early the county council areas surrounding the city were almost entirely rural in character and meetings proceeded at a leisurely pace, far removed from the crisp, business-like pace today. The Waimairi County Council in those days met of an evening in its old council chambers on the Main North road. Ordinary meetings went on for five, six hours or more and the annual meeting was a grand affair, with a lavish meal and appropriate refreshments.
After sitting out one of the ordinary meetings that ended some time after 1 a.m., a reporter tackled the late Mr Jock Walter, a Marshland farmer and onetime chairman of the council, and asked him why on earth meetings went on so long.
“It’s our one night out a month,’’ he replied. “If we got home any earlier than midnight, our wives would not believe we had been at a council meeting.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 22 (Supplement)
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153Excuse For Late Nights Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 22 (Supplement)
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