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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 685, 9 December 1909, Page 6

Groduolly : -in some localities very gradually! —tho.welcome tentaclos of the..telcpnono system are spreading through the lonely and sparsely-settled portions of tho I'elorus Sound (savs tho "relorus Guardian")..". For a long lime some of tho settlers on the western shores of the sound have been at 1 a great disadvantage and in times of sickness—m not having telephonic communication, but now their trouble! in these matters :are, over, for last Friday a line was completed from tho. French Pass lo liulwer, with a connection-at Huritini en route. Mr. Turner, of•' Waitata Hay, has petitioned for .a branch lino to his placo, only a mile distaf.it. from tho new lino tn Bnlwer, but thereis between tho Departmental estimrito. for; tho work and that of Mr, Turner.; The' official estimate is .£7l, but we understand that Mr; Tumor has offered to "find-the wire, the'labour; and an instrument,': if tho .Deportment will find the twenty poles required. Such a reasonable offer as this ought: to 1 secure a prompt 1 acceptance • from. the Department, l