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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1933, Page 6

On behalf of the telephone and telegraph pole getters, Mr O’Brien, At. P. wrote to the Postmaster-General pointing out a very large number of poles were already lying at the railway sidings, and that some of them had lain there for several years. The poles had been branded by the P. and T. Department, and to all intents and purposes were the property of the Department. Yet the cutters had not been paid for thorn, although they bad to put up a deposit with the Forestry Department before they were allowed to cut. Recently the department had called for tenders for a supply of poles for the South Westland line, and Air O’Brien protested most strongly against tenders being called, and held the poles already cut and branded should be taken at the price which the P. and T. Department were paying when the poles were cut. Air O’Brien has - nbw " received "a' reply from the Postmaster-General to the effect that his representations were being enquired' intd ; (and a further reply would be .forwarded him;:. L” -Tr;'