SLOT TELEPHONES
A Complete Blackout
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 21. All public call offices, popularly known as slot telephone boxes, will be fully blacked out from to-morrow onward by the removal of the lamps. This step has been made necessary because of the Department’s difficulty in satisfying the blackout requirements by other means, a difficulty which has apparently been aggravated by vandalism. The reduced lighting of telephone boxes by canopies or blue lights has been in operation for some time, the Chief Postmaster (Mr V. C. Lawn) said tp-day, but this did not satisfy the requirements fully. Users of telephones, he said, would therefore have to provide their own lighting, an electric torch, for instance. Vandalism, which was normally considerable and was worse in blackout conditions, Mr Lawn said, had added to the difficulties. There were dozens of cases yearly of damage to telephone cabinets and to telephones. Latterly vandalism had extended to the removal of the blue colour from the lamps and to damage to or the removal of the lamps or canopies.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22253, 22 April 1942, Page 6
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173SLOT TELEPHONES Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22253, 22 April 1942, Page 6
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