AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES.
— ■ ♦ COST £40,000 IS EACH CITi
(sPEcr.iii to 'thi: pkess.") WKLLINXTTOX, July 10 An estimate of the cost of installin;; automatic telephones in New Zealund was given to a reporter by the retiring Postmaster-General this morning. Mr Ell said that he had approved the recommendations of the departmental officers that the system should be adopted, and it was for the new Cabinet t<> decide whether tho expenditure should be undertaken. The cost of installing an exchange considerably in advance of the present plant would be £40,000 for each of the four cities. Mr Ell added that if an automatic system was adopted there would be no need to dismiss any of the attendant* now employed in tho city exchanges: they would he absorbed in other branches of the Service as counter attendants or as postmistresses in suburban offices.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14404, 11 July 1912, Page 9
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