SYDNEY'S TELEPHONES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1920, Page 3

SYDNEY'S TELEPHONES

JOYS OF A GREAT CITY. SYDNEY, December 31 Distant fields are always the greenest. In some parts of Australia, and perhaps in. New Zealand, too, Sydney is pictured as, pleasantly jazzing and supping through life without a care—as a. place where, in one long, intoxicating round of pleasure, people simply sit round the lotus tree and eat prodigally of the fruit- that brings dreamy content and east. It is wrong. Sydney has its troubles...ifs street bands, farone tiling, its "telephones fop another.. Amerieq clangs that if all its railway tracks were placed end on end they would girdle the earth about nineteen tim.es. Sydney can heat that. It claims that, if all its protests about its telephonic service were linked together in one loud protesting blast, they would make more noise than ever Iheodore Roosevelt did, and he was reckoned to have made more noise in the world than any other man.

If anyone can point to a worse telephonic service in the world than in this city, Sydney will be delighted to hear of it. Morning, afternoon and night, it damns its telephones up Hill and down dale. Rut it is like, water running off a duck’s back. Fat people are losing weight through the worry of It. Thin people are (becoming veritable shadow’s through it. Faces scored with worried wrinkles and crowned with heads of grew hairs are another of its legacies Long-suffering Sydney, in fact, is becoming peripatetic. It is learning the wisdom of doing its business by walking rather than run the risk any longer of being worried by tliq telephones into a state of hopeless idiocy. Whether the new Postmaster-General for Mr Webster lost- his seat at the elections—will breathe some reform into this department, remains to be seen.