"WHY A TELEPHONE AT BLUE SPUR?"
TO THE EDITOR. •
j gjj^—lo quote your own words, "A state of isolation from the great centres of the world, of which we form a comparatively insignificant part, is barely tolerable." Now,; Sir, you have in those few words put the thing just right for our case. Do'you know that ou our bit of a kopje. Blue Spur by name, we did not know of our late heloved Queen's death or of the proclamation of our new King until your valuable paper informed us about 3 p.m.? Yet we have a piece of wire connecting us with the rest of the world,, and a telephone serrice, which we always pay for when using, and a most zealous and obliging official supervising and managing the said telephone n.ervioe. Yet we cannot get ,such important items of news as the above sent to us from Lawrence. Naturally, we want to know why does the Government keep up machinery foi the dissemination of news' of public interest in this " comparatively insignificant part" of the universe? Can you tell us?—l am, etc., A. W. Ttxdall. Blue Spur, January 30.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11957, 2 February 1901, Page 8
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