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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 August 1916, Page 3

The slot telephone machines in the city and suburbs of Christchiirch are a constant source of annoyance to their users. A representative of the .News recetly had experience of this in a case, where a doctor's attention was urgently needed. After putting no less than six pennies in the slot and receiving no reply he had to resort to other means of communication. Another came under our representative's attention this morning at Papanui where a. young lady emerged rightly indignant from the slot machine, and enquired if that means oT communication was cut off, stating that she put four pennies in the slot but had received no answer. Such happenings as -these are most annoying, and the cause of the trouble warrants further investigation. The Telephone Department stales that the trouble is chiefly caused bv people t impering with the machines by putting things other than pennies in the slot and so getting them out of oniei for legitimate users. The system of covering horses and cows when turned out in the winter mo'ifhs is so firmly established in NewZealand and Australia that it will come as a surprise to many to find that it doo> not find equal favour elsewhere. Tin t such is the case, says the Auckland Star, is shown by the fact that a lieutenant in the Army Service Corps, Guards Divisional Train. British . Expeditionary Force in Flanders, has sent to Mr 1?. Le Ray asking him to forv.ard him a. cover for his pony, the reason being that covers as used in ply was "We do not cover horses out to grass in this country."

.Vow Zealand are not used in Great Britain and France. There have been several occasions on which vlisitors from England have taken ia cover Home, but have said that their neighbours would think tliey wore makl to turn a home out with a cover 011 it. Some years ago, in writiug to the United States, a large cover-maker Jiere mentioned what is done in New Zealand in covering, and the American reiMr Subbubs: "Here's an article in the paper .saying that in spring it is advisable to prune fruit trees." ill's Subbubs"Well, let's prune ours. I just love prunes."