HOSEPIPE TO STOP SONGS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1929, Page 2

HOSEPIPE TO STOP SONGS

BACKYARD BAND

BIRKENHEAD, June 15. j A doctor’s method of showing his • dislike of the singing of -a neighbour’s ! wife was described at Birkenhead toj day when Dr. G. A. Moulden, of Prin- | cess Boulevard, Higher Bebington, ' Cheshire, was fined £3 for drenching Mr Ralph Henry Barber, an accountant, with a hosepipe. I Mr Alister Hamilton, for Mr Barber said that the assault was the culmination of a series of annoyances. ! In September the doctors two boys and a servant heat the dustbin in the yard for 20 minutes to annoy Mr Barber. j Another evening the doctor crouched behind the wall firing a stage pistol and terrifying Mrs Barber and her : child. . Mr Barber was awakened another night by terrific crash in the doctor’s , yard and lie saw the doctor at the window lifting the dustbin lid up and down on a rope. i “DEVASTATING VOICE.” ! When Mr Barber complained of the I noise through his solicitors, Dr. Mouldeu wrote: I Your client’s wife sings all day long. . your client’s wife possess a-voice which ; is abominably loud, extremely * penetrating. and has the devastating property of being able to maintain any given note, particularly a high one, for an indefinite period, ! ,i ' The singing commences at. an earlv , hour, and, continues with slow pans- 3 .' for breath until the evening,, the back door of yoiir. client’s house being usually open so that \v,e...gct the full volume of the song. . : | It has a pianoforte accomplishment ’ and has been known to continue until 4.30 on a Sunday morning, j As the noise we have to put up with is worse than anything 1 can make, I ! am thinking of taking up the study of the trombone. My wife tells me that the child was : kept awake this morning by the screeching. Your client’s wife’s repertoire is: (1) “ Love Call.” from “Rose Marie” :

.(2). “ I ; ,lj<p.v.e the ”.: c Aria. ; frmn and Dftlilah. (4) he Ro^if r y.” . , ‘ ■ Wliat Air 'Er,\ie%t Newman- ■%>>)? nc uU >' I , :Qn ; yyjl|it Monday,;;cqntipued . Mi-. Hamilijonj, ; the j was playing' ;i ’ nynitli-qrgnp, beifting,’ * lid, and driving, Jus rn.oto.r-car,, in and l ont of the drive, booting all the time!’ That dayitihendoetorfe-inmid had beenmimicking Mrs Barber and,Mr Barber Half an hour later when Mr Barber and the doctor were watering their gardens, Mr Barber was splashed through the fence. , , ~

He told the doctor to stop it, and the doctor then turned the hosepipe on him, drenching him.

Mrs Barber ctyue put ,arbd the doctor turned. the hosepipe on, ,h.er, t . ,[VIr and Mrs Barber went into,the hpusq, to,;get but of the way.'but the do.ctpi; [followed them and 'flooded the scu .i;,' Dr Moulden said; Mr, Barber used:a nasty expression about. Mrs Moulden arid, he .turned* the -hosepipe.,on hipi. to protect her. ’'. . jf , .... ~,, '