Up the Pole
HE distance from Innisfail in Queensland to Broome in Western Australia i6 fifteen hundred miles as the crow flies. If you set out to make the journey on foot, you would find yourself travelling for the first 500 miles through difficult
country. By the time you had reached the _ telegraph line, you would _ probably have given up the idea of reaching Broome. You would see the long line of telegraph poles disappearing to the south, and the sun
above, and — nothing else, And you would-if you still had the strengthclimb a telegraph pole, and knock off *an insulator. Then, you’d slide down, sit at the foot of the pole, and wait until the linesman came along to see what
the trouble was.-
North of Australia
National Service Talk, 2YA, Monday,
March 23rd, 1942.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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