One of the first telegraph messages sent in New Zealand, according to Keith Newman's Wordworx website, was "Mr Oakes is coming round in schooner Colleen Baun with good dog Pedro poisoned and dead." That memorable sentence was transmitted in 1862. Now we crusties at the NZBC are all in favour of commemorating our heritage so I propose an immediate campaign to immortalise Pedro outside Telecom's headquarters in Wellington. I see a freestanding, or in this case lying, statue on a plinth, or perhaps a bas relief over their front door - a dead dog, a coil of rope on wooden deck with the inscription "Good dog Pedro is dead". The dead dog should become the symbol of our national carrier forthwith!