Phone books have shrunk considerably in recent years but the latest Southern Lakes edition is the briefest ever — missing 17 pages.
It jumps from page 48 directly to page 65.
Advertising in the Yellow section ends at "Television, Video and Stereo" listings and the next page is listings for surnames beginning with C in Cromwell.
Companies listed after "Television, Video and Stereo", along with all of Alexandra’s phone numbers and the A and B surnames of Cromwell, are missing.
Alexandra residents raised questions about the newly delivered book on social media yesterday, the first person asking if their book was the only one missing a chunk of pages.
Yellow head of content and lead generation Sally Knox said they had only recently been made aware of the issue affecting some books in the delivery area.
"We are looking into the matter and will be pausing further distribution until this can be rectified for our Southern Lakes community and customers," she said.
The omission comes on the heels of a photograph on the cover of Dunedin’s phone book of Sandfly Bay Lagoon — in the Abel Tasman National Park, 787km or about a 10-hour drive, from Dunedin’s Sandfly Bay.
