TELEPHONE LINES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 29, 4 February 1925, Page 10

TELEPHONE LINES.

WORK AT MORRINSVECLE. DEMAND FOR TKHKPTIOXKS. (From liur Own lorresponieut.) MOr-RINSVII.LK. Tuesday. The improvemen! of the telephonic and telegraphic facilities anil the extension of tiie operations of the Vlorrinsville exchange have now been going for the past eighteen months. The work has included the installation of aerial and underground cables, new overhead wiring and reconstruction and the installation of new phones. In this last phase of xvork the post and telegraph gang has been particularly busy, and during the past ten months over IUO new subscribers have been connecteil. bringing the total number of subscribers on the Morrinsville exchange to ...17. Tt is expected that the number will exceed IiOO before another year passed. There are at present fifteen names on the waiting list, xvhich is continually lieing reduced (o a minimum only to groxv again hefore x-ery long. At the present lime the gangs are engaged in removing the telegraphic xvircs from the railway lines and transferring them to the main roads. Already the new- line, betxx-een Morrinsville and VVaitoa has been erected. The line over the Eureka swamp towards Hamilton will not follow the road, as the road ts too winding, but otherwise all the lines following the railway will j be transferred to the roads. j