SYDNEY'S TELEPHONES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16725, 7 January 1920, Page 4

SYDNEY'S TELEPHONES.

JOYS OF A GEEAT CITY. (rr.oM our owv roiinr.srosuwrA SYD.VEY. TVccmbcr .">l. Distant fields are always the greenest. Tn sonic parti of Australia, and j perl.r.p* in New Zealand, ton, .Sydney j i* pict tired a.- pleasantly jazzing ami supping through iite without a ca Teas a place where, in one lon<r. intoxicating round of pleasure, people simply sit beneath the lotus tree ami eat prodigally cf the fruit that brings dreamy content and ease. It is wronn. Sydney has it< troubles —its street bands, tor one tiling, and its telephones lor another America elainib that if all ii--r.iihvay tracks were placed end on end tiiev Mould girdle the earth about ninetimes. Sydney can l>cat that. It claims that if all its protests about its telephonic service were linked together iu one loud protesting blast, they would make more noise than ever Theodoie lloosevelt did. and ho was reckoned to have made more noise iu the world than anv other man.

If unyonr can point to a xrorso tolophonic sorvii'o : n tho worTH tlian in tlii.i city. Syilncy will bo delighted to henr of it. "Morniny. nftornoon, and r.ight, it damns its telephones up liill and down dale. But it is liko water running off a duck's back. Fat people are losing weight through tlie worry of it. Thin poople are. becoming veritable shadow:, through it. Faces scored with worried wrinkles and crowned with heads of grey hairs arc another of its legacies. J.ong-suffering Sydney, in fact, is becoming peripatetic. It is learning tho wisdom of doing its business by walking rather than rnn tlie risk any longer of being worried by the telephones into a state of hopeless idiocy. "Whether the new "Postmaster-General for Air "Webster lost his teat at :he elections —will breathe some reform into this department remains to be teen.