THE HARBOUR TELEPHONE.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 260, 25 May 1906, Page 2

THE HARBOUR TELEPHONE.

i^® , ;g?fi& 1 THE EDITOR.) Mr Greenslade was representative of the Waikato electorate we were promised a telephone round the harbour, and judging by the amount of departmental correspondence that has been published 1, with others, thought it would be constructed right aqjfty. The telegram published in your issue of the 11th in reference to this important woik, is (to use a Yankeeism) ” aw fully rich,” and the excuse as to the delay is the best I have ever beard. Talk about the “ scarcity of labour ” ex«use, why this latest knocks that into a “ cocked bat.” Poor unsophisticated back-blockers, how easily we are blinded ! The local sawmillera have never been approached relative to the poles, so they must ba coming from somewhere else. They might be got too cheap here 1 I don’t mind wagering that the poles are still grow ing in the bush, and are likely to be till just before next election. . . . Sir J. G. Ward has not yet told fh“ Conference in Rime, how some of the back-blocks get communication with the outside world, but I sincerely hope that he will, and sucu a district as this could be used as an illustration of the up-to-dateness of the New Z >aland Postal Department. Yes, lot me see —mail to Kinohaku, Awaroa, Te Maika and Waiharakeke once a w iek, to Kiritehere fortnightly, to Kawhia bi-weekly ; telephone t . Kawhi i, but to nowhere else round the harbour. . . . . —Yours, etc, ANXIOUS. [Our c irrespondant cannot write in a mild manner, cons, quautly wa have bad to eliminate two portions. Fur his information we con say that tbe line is to ba constructed shortly, tor only the other day the instructions as to using the telephones arrived at the various offices. Each centre has therefore been supplied with a telephone and the directions as to its use, the only thing now necessary being the line —Ed. S.]