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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20454, 6 November 1934, Page 6

“ I sold a wireless outfit to an outback settler recently,” said Mr Hyde, of Shannon. at a recent Power Board meeting. “ Some days afterwards I called to see how the outfit was working. The settler told me to take it away as it was costing too much in electricity. He had not turned off the current since it had been installed!” said Mr Ilvde. That reminded another member of a farmer who bought a motorcar and while waiting for the vendor decided “to set her going.” He succeeded in circling a paddock several times while he called to members of the family to get the vendor as “ he couldn’t stop the darned thing! ”