A former resident was asking about the old town. “I understand they have a curfew law out there now,” he remarked. “No,” his informant replied, “they did have one, but abandoned it.” “What was the matter?” “The -bell rang at nine o’clock, and almost everyone complained that it woke them up!”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1938, Page 8
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