Cockcrow
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WHIM-WHAM
(Whether the council had power to stop a@ rooster crowing was debated at an Ashburton Borough Council meeting when nothing could be found in the local by-laws to show that the council had any jurisdiction in the matter. A complaint was teceived from a resident that a rooster kept in a pen by a neighbour annoyed the neighbourhood by crowing in the early hours of the morning. It was decideti to reply that the council had no power to stop the rooster ctowing.-Newspaper item.) ow g00d to see Authority Admit an Incapacity In simple Terms, such decent Frankness showing As those Ashburton Councillors Who answered, "In Reply to Yours, We have no Power to stop the Rooster crowing." HEN Bodies of all Kinds reveal New promptings of officious Zeal, With jealous regulative Ardour glowing, Wh:a Fear’ exclaims, "Control! Sup r It must take Courage to confess You have no Power to stop a Rooster crowing. P 8 ser Regulations not exist, Giving Authority to twist The Necks of Roosters too loquacious growing? Might not a last unguarded Squawk Have been construed as Careless alk, And invoked to stop that Crowing? A= the Law contained no Word -ee them to gag the irdNo more than to restrain the Wind é Th.'- Answer for the Bird of Came like Portent and a Warning: "We have no Power to stop the Rooster crowing." — --ane ener me
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 174, 23 October 1942, Page 2
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236Cockcrow New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 174, 23 October 1942, Page 2
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