Telegraph Messages.
There was such a crush of urgent 11 wires " to and from the Feilding racecourse during the races held on Tuesday and yesterday that many messages, including press " wires," were considerably delayed, particularly on the first day, when some of the messages were dispatched more than two hours After they were handed in. The crush wan so great yesterday morning that some messages were not sent away at all, or, at any rate, until they would be useless to the newspapers for which they were intended. The local operators were not in any way to blame for this unsatisfactory state of affairs, for they had a very severe task to pjpforra and they did their work well under the circumstances, but some improvement should certainly be made to obviate any possibility of a similar block on the wires on any future occasion. It is true that an exceptionally large number of messages were both forwarded and received, probably more, other things being equal, than to and from any other office in the colony at a race meeting, still, there was much dissatisfaction felt and expressed, especially by the senders of " urgent " telegrams, that their messages did not reach their intended distinction in time to be of profitable uce.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 131, 2 December 1897, Page 2
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