THE POST OFFICE CHIMES.
' TO BE STOPPED AT NIGIlT; Al last night's meeting of the Works Committee i.f the Borough Council, al letter was read from the licensee of the White Hurt Hotel, stating that som» time age he forwarded a petition signed by over 57 prominent visitors to New Plymouth requesting that the Post Offica clock chimes should be stopped at night for certain hours. To that petition ha received a reply advising that the Council would have the matter attended to, provided tlio petitioners paid the cost therefore, nominally £lB. He insisted that the Council should pay as thu chimes at night were a public and should be removed. The Mayor remarked that when thfi question was previously discussed by tha Council there had not been any sug* gestion that Mr. Brookm&n should pa? the cost. Cr. Smith said that he understood that! other residents in the vicinity of tha Post Oflice had complained of the chimes] disturbing theirr est. Other towns had discontinued the chimes at night anJ ; Xcw Plymouth should follow suit. He; moved that the chimes be stopped be<) tween 11 p.m. and 0 a.m.—Seconded b« Cr. Hayden. Cr. C'ollis supported the motion, stat« ing that he was of opinion that tin' Council was even under an injunction tcj stop the noise in the power-house if com* plaint was made by residents in thd neighbourhood. Tiie motion was carried, on a show ofl hands, hy C to 4. i-
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1916, Page 4
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244THE POST OFFICE CHIMES. Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1916, Page 4
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