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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 273, 3 November 1916, Page 5

A revision is being made by the Post and Telegraph Department of the system of call-signals nt present usi-d in cases where two or more telephone subscribers rent the same line. Under the new system, it is proposed, in place of two. three, or four rings, long or short, to adopt the Morse signals for the letters D. K, M. R. b. .and \\ l'*.r instance, the letter I) is represented by a b ■''[>><; ;’nd two i ion rings, 8 by three short rings, and so on, one of these letters being assigned to each subscriber to a party line. The advantage of the new system will be that subscribers ituhad of having to count the number of rings will learn to instinctively recognise their own particular call letters. Though notice of the change has alrt :idy been given in regard to some of the suburban exchanges it is not intended to be put into operation until the telephone directory is reprinted, abou the- cml of the year. The number of young girls to be seen out joy-riding in taxi-cabs at night around the city was referred to by counsel in a divorce action at the Supreme Court at Auckland on Wednesday. Any evening in Queen street, he said, little g.’ h couhi be observed riding cboul in taxi-cabs with strang" men. while (Himbers ot others could be noticed going into picture shows without proper escorts. “1 know t.iiat Auckland is rather notorious for what you mention,” rema-ked Mr. Justice Frisking. His Honour, however, declined to consider the matter in relation to the case before him, which affected the custody of a young the child of a divorced couple. Lhe girl’s stories of taxi-riders, he. said, seem to him to be childish inventions, and lie did not attach any importance to them. , . _ Speaking to an “Evening News reporter, a gentleman interested in the stock line, and who has recently gone south as far as Clinton, states that the outstanding feature of t.tie present stock season is the extraordinary quality and strength of the •amb.s. These, from the day they were dropped, hax’e done remarkably well. The feed is nothing much out of the common, but is sound and hard, and the lambs are the finest seen for many years in every portion of the district. So fine are they, especially the ewe lambs, that farmers there are discussing the advisability of legislation being introduced to prohibit the slaughter of the female stock of lamlis. Many agree with the principle, savs onr informant, but say that while they can sell for good prices they will get all they can.