WRONG ATTITUDE t i.; ■ • "I strorigly object to the attitude that some people- -have adopted- toward the farming community," said a business man to a Christchurch Sun reporter. "The other day I heard a school teacher discussing one of the pupils of his cla'ss — a very backward boy. "Oh, I suppose he'll be a farmer," was his remark. It was this sort of idea — the1 idea that the farming community conisists of halfwits and dolts— that is- doing- SL lot of damage to this .country. The farmer needs as keen a brain as the man in the city offiee.' - - NEW TELEPHONE SERVICE . A new telephone service put on trial in Holland the other day .permits from three to six persons to talk with each other over a- telephone at one time. The new. service is findi'ng' a wide use in commercial and public quarters, where. conferences can * be held and agreements 'arrived at without g'oing. froni. the offiee;. = ws:.:;
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 82, 27 November 1931, Page 4
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