"WIRED WIRELESS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 249, 21 October 1935, Page 9

"WIRED WIRELESS."

LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONY. KEEPS PACE WITH BUSINESS. Keeping pace with the steady improvement in business, the Post Office is providing several additional channels for long-distance telephone conversation. Two direct circuits between Wellington and Auckland have hitherto been adequate to meet the demand, but they are now supplemented by a third circuit consequent upon increased work following reductions in rates and accentuated by the steady improvement in general business conditions. Palmerston North is being given a direct outlet to Auckland, instead of having to connect with the northern city by way of Hamilton. In addition this important inland centre has been provided with another direct circuit to Wellington and a second circuit to Masterton. Direct telephone communication between New Plymouth and Auckland is being devised in substitution for the existing system of routing these calls variously through Palmerston North, Te Kuiti and , Wellington.

Most of the new circuits described above are now in use, and have been provided by means of the "carrier" telephone system which, in the language of the layman, might be termed "wired wireless." It involves the, installation of elaborate equipment at all the terminal points, and also the provision of speech amplifying stations'at Hamilton, Ohakune and Palmerston North. This system is the latest development in long distance telephony, and not only ensures a maximum volume and clarity of speech, lut also eliminates extraneous noises.