London has now 565,000 telephones. Nearly 360,000 miles of telephone wires were added last year, making nearly two and a-half million miles. The telephone directories issued weighed 1700 tons and contained nearly 300,000 entries.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1928, Page 5
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