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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1075, 15 May 1879, Page 2

It is time that something was done iv the matter of providing increased telegraph accommodation for the Waikato. For some time of late ifc has been exceedingly difficult to get telegrams away m anything like reasonable time, and notably so during the period that the great native meeting was being held at Kopua, and though such an interference with the ordinary business of the telegraph does not often occur, yet there are frequently minor occasions on which the wire is more than ordinarily blocked. On Tuesday an ordinary message could not pass under seven hours, What is

wanted is a second wire, so that when Cambridge or Hamilton or any other station is m possession of one wire the othor may be available for some other station, and the messages be more rapidly worked. For some time past there has been no certainty of gettiDg the real worth of telegraphing, despatch, without sending the messages as m gent, which means paying double rates. Now, when to ensure quickness of despatch payment of double rates becomes a necessity, it is time that the public convenience should be studied by affording increased accommodation by a second wire. The fact that those whose business is sufficiently important to warrant them m paying double, rates habitually do so\ still further increases the delay and inconvenience to the general public who do not, for they have, not only to wait their turn, but must submit to see the nrgent telegrams put m after theirs sent on before theirs. It was suggested on Monday evening by the Mayor alter the Hamilton Borough Council had broken up, thatthe Council should move officially m the mntter. It would be well it at thoir next meeting practical action were taken, notice of which could be given m due time before the day of sitting, also that the chairmen of the Waikato and Waipa County Councils and chairmen of other local bodies should unite m co-operating with them to secure from, the Department a recognition of this want of facilities for telegraphic communication m Waikato.