ROSA WOODS/Stuff
Wellington City Council staff have made some amusing discoveries while sifting through its vast warehouse of paper archives.
From where can one buy poisoned wheat? How many cars go over the Auckland Harbour Bridge in an hour? Who can I contact in Cape Town to get South African plant seeds? These might not be the sorts of questions one would expect to be directed towards Wellington City Council, which is perhaps why they are causing some amusement as they are unearthed from the organisation’s vast warehouse of paper archives. The council is about one-sixth of its way through digitising a collection of paper records that would stretch for 12 kilometres if they werestacked on top of each other. While doing so, it has rediscovered some of the more bizarre queries made to the council over the years.