TELEPHONE POLES GOING FROM QUEEN ST.

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 55, 27 May 1927, Page 9

TELEPHONE POLES GOING FROM QUEEN ST.

CLEAR IN FEW WEEKS SUGGESTION FOR IMPROVEMENT lW ,THIN a * ew weeks the last °f the telephone-wire poles will have disappeared from Queen street, as far up as Wellesley Street. t \yiTH their going Queen Street will be made more attractive. There * 110 doubt that the large poles, with e * r festoons of wires and cables. are unsightly. Practically the whole of the telephone system of the city is now underground, and the Telegraph Department is anxious to remove the Poles at the first opportunity. Gradu'ast °* tlle wires and the down°' er^ead cal) i e are being taken

- re moval °f the telephone-wire Onf 8 SUR Sests that the whole of tnm? n ®i re et could be cleared of the "rainway poles also, and therefore v. s . e . r an d unsightliness could both oe eliminated. is .h exam P le of what could be done in, , non the new Dilworth Buildat t * le intersection of Queen and t-nstoms Streets.

Here the tramway poles have -en removed and the wires are .. p P° rte d from rings inserted into e foont of the building. Passers- " tfle y onre to look, can see « the rings do not detract from "• “PPearance of the building. tram*? 8 to su PP°rt the whole of the overhead wires could be inai ea raf° most of the buildings nor e stree t. Those which are be 8 j to su PP°rt the weight could tteiri to do so by a little adjust-

*, be question of supports for decoraBre Bc “ emes has been raised. At - r se, J t . when any arches or festoons exist? aced across Queen Street, the - telephone-wire poles are used a base from which to work. Their at , 88 cou^( t he taken by rings placed >ot k e ?, ular intervals on the fascades ’St thUldijjgs. j -