A WARNING TO BOYS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1831, 25 May 1918, Page 3

A WARNING TO BOYS.

Boys who throw stones at the insulators of telephone posts are the cause of the Department being put to a great deal of expense every year in replacing broken insulators, and now in war time it is feeling the pinch, both in regard to the supply of insulators and cost of re-i uewing them. In order to impress upon the rising generation the consequences of its campaign against insulators, the Department has circularised all the schools of the Do-i minion pointing out that the number of telegraph insulators broken during the course of a year number many thousands, and il costs a large sum of money to replace them. People who use the telephone often wonder why it is so difficult to hear

and be heard. More than half the trouble is caused through broken insulators, Owing to the war, it is impossible to get new insulators, and if the breakage continues it simply means that when the existing small stock is used up*there will be no more new telephone lines built, and many existing lines must be closed.