Several telephone instruments and a London telephone directory were recently sealed up in a casket and placed under the foundation stone of the new London telephone headquarters. If London should be destroyed, or submerged by the sea, and come up again, men of a future civilisation will be just as much interested in digging out present-day history as present antiquarians are in digging out the secrets of ancient civilisations. The enormous building will house about 2000 workers and have huge switchboards on six of its nine floors. Kaitangata is our most economical coal; it radiates such a lasting heat.—Advt, Mending and darning up to tile last. Miss Mary Mauds has died at Handsworth. Birmingham, aged 101.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 2
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116Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 2
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