It is most inconvenient to have people wandering round the town and discharging firearms (states the Christchurch Sun). Some of the business people of Lyttelton are quite peeved about it. About a week ago the telephones in three or four offices went out of commission. Nothing done or said to them would induce them to operate. Linesmen were called in, and found that a bullet was R dged in a telephone cable. Water had got into the cable through the hole, and thus the ’phones were made useless.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3831, 16 August 1927, Page 10
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