“A good joke was 'lolcl against fin 1 the other day.” said the Wailumu Power Board’s engineer. Pve been going round the streets examining the electric transmission poles, sometimes digging my knife into them or cutting a little slip off them to see whether they were totarn or dronbark, and how ntiieli sap wood there was. Wo’l, someone iplw me at it, and went, to the Town Clerk and said: ‘t’vft just. Sven' a chap going round the Streets and cutting hits off the poles. Po you think he’s dll there?’ ”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16498, 2 August 1924, Page 2
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