It is complained in Thames that, tho much-needed extension of Hie telephone system is held u;i owing In the absence (if four or live Iclculiniic pules, ||i<> Department asserting in rnily In remonstrances that no telegraph poles are obtainable in Australia! The ,ocal paper says:—"Wo iuive a few thousand kauri trees handy, any one of which would furnish admirable poles, but the business brains of tho Department hold (hat it is infinitely belter to hold back the progress of a district, inconveniencing eight or len thousand' pronlo, rather than divert in the fraction of a degree from Ihe sacred regulations. Such a. painful exhibition of atrophy of tho cerobrn', functions would call for sympathy were such futility not a menaco to the general growth."-
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 85, 5 January 1920, Page 4
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124Untitled Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 85, 5 January 1920, Page 4
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