THE HARBOUR TELEPHONE.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 281, 19 October 1906, Page 3

THE HARBOUR TELEPHONE.

(to THK KPiTOF.) Sib, —Ten months ego with soieme mein and weighted words our member read out what to us wa«r an all important fact—that the PostmasterGeneral bed definitely promised to erect the telephone around the har bour. (Great applause, followed by “ See what you get for being good and returning a Government member.”) Interval of five menths. Arrival of poles, not necessarily for publication or use but as a guarantee of good faith. Pause. There the matter end’. When the poles first arrived a 50 word telegram was addressed to tbe Tnspec tor of Telegraphs advising him that to save handling it would be better \o land them from tbe ship’s slings on to tbe punt direct and taken where required in lots of 50 or so, but tbe offer was definitely re-fused and tbe Department is now waiting for tbe roads to dry! Even if To Rau-a-moa was meant, the pole? will have to bo punted to the ferry, and as it takes, four men to each pole note tbe extra expense. Tha idea of waiting for the roads to dry for at leeat G'.'O .poles ! That is impossible as there arn’t any roads.— Yours, etc., .... DISGUSTED.