SLOT TELEPHONE BOXES
COMPLETE “BLACK-OUT” (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 lamps. The step has been necessary because of the department's difficulty in satisfying black-out requirements by other means, a difficulty which lias apparently been aggravated by vandalism. 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 today, but this did not satisfy 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 difficulties. There were dozens of cases yearly of damage to telephone cabinets and to telephones.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 94, 23 April 1942, Page 6
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141SLOT TELEPHONE BOXES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 94, 23 April 1942, Page 6
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