ACT OF VANDALISM
TELEPHONES TAMPERED WITH,
One night last week .the receivers of eight street' (public) telephones were deliberately cut off, (by- severing the cord that leads to the.ihstrument) and stolen. 'Allfour; public telephones in front of the General Post Office in Featherston Street were robbed of their receivers, and four other bureaux in the City were Similarly dispossessed the Game night. ."This is an net of stupid vandalism," Baid Mr. W. R. Morris (Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department) yesterday, "and the matter was at once placed in the hands of the police. If the cnl- ' prit is caught, I hope that he will .be severely dealt with. These telephones have been put up for the benefit of the public at all hours, and.it is deplorable that they should be interfered, with in this or any other way. It is a case of 'Citizens protect your own property/ and I hope that, should the opportunity oicur, ' the public will helj us to keep the telephones in working order and the "bureaux decent.".-
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2795, 13 June 1916, Page 6
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174ACT OF VANDALISM Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2795, 13 June 1916, Page 6
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