UNUSUAL MISHAP

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 10

UNUSUAL MISHAP

LOCAL TELEPHONE SERVICE

Owing to a mir>hap at 4.40 p.m. yesterday in the dialling tone apparatus, five thousand tele) phone lines connected with the Stout St reet exchange in Wellington were affa cted for ten minutes, the "humming sound" disappearing. The cause of tlie trouble was the earthing of the {lialling tone circuit.

A Post and Te legraph official stated today that actually there was nothing wrong with th<: system itself. Had subscribers disregarded the apparent deadness of ttijj telephones, he said, they would havij been connected. Instead, they took, the receivers off and waited for something to happen, with the result that title system was thrown out of action ujitil the dialling tone was restored. ' Suitable steps were being taken tq safeguard against a similar occurrej ice. There has not been a similar happening in Wellington for twelve years. Should it occur again, it was pointed out that subscribers should not be concerned about the absence of the humming sound 1 and should go ahead and dial their } lumbers as usual. IT LASTS: TWICE AS LONG. You treat your pipe right and it will treat you right. Give it that longburning Edgeyi/orth. Bathe your tonsils in the qool, fragrant smoke of tender tobacco properly aged and cured. Each.' pipeful lasts so long that you save on yjour tobacco money. That's economy witih. pleasure; 2s 3d 2oz— Advt.