FENCES AS TELEPHONES
INGENIOUS METHOD USED IN CANADA. In the drought-stricken areas of the prairie provinces of Canada some farmers have evolved an ingenious method of communicating with neighbours and the outside world, in place of the telephone service for which they are unable to pay. They are making use of wire fences to talk to each other and to broadcast wireless programmes. Making use of headphones, loud speakers, and batteries to electrify the circuit they have established efficient links of communication with their neighbours, and families who cannot afford wireless sets of their own are finding it possible to hear over these improvised lines programmes relayed by their more fortunate friends.
The question of the legality of these practices was raised in the Provincial Legislature of Saskatchewan when it was found that these lines had to be carried over roads at certain points, but the Provincial Ministry decided that it would not interfere with a practice which was invented because of desperate economic distress, and was a tribute to the resourcefulness of the prairie farmers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1938, Page 3
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176FENCES AS TELEPHONES Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1938, Page 3
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