TELEPHONE SERVICE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20011, 20 August 1930, Page 9

TELEPHONE SERVICE.

• T IMPROVED FACILITIES, v- % -4k [THE PBEBB Special S«rviw.3' 1 WELLINGTON, August s. Further improvements in the speedl - efficiency of long distance telephone-? lines between various South WjfflJ*-', centres were announced-by the * Ww '* master-General, tho Hon; 'J. ,B..Dofc-> aid, in'a statement to-day. ' Voice frequency amplifiers installed at Timaru and at Chrisfcchurch, and a carrier telephone , has been established between* Onw«£' church' and Greymouth. this additional equipment the Irepart-!>< ment has made available tWO higll/, grade telephone betwppD. „ Christchurch and Dunedin, .and similar circuits between _ ChristchnJrdl; and Greymouth. In additiorrto-dujilV eating the lines, the new" system#' haTg greatly improved the qjretaltY' ciency of wie channels a - suit in a considerable improvement »U* ; the speech between Christchurolt ®P^- ! such other centres as >/, Invercargill, Greymouth, . and Hokitika, as well as an-' able improvement in thevolume, <slai|*yand reliability of long distance conyCr-'' satiotis. particularly those takingplac® ' between Dunedin and Wellington. Speech between Greymouth and* other exchanges on the West Coast with Dunedin,' Gore and InvercargOl \wflJ , show a marked increase .in' :#olmne compared with thd conditions prevailed a few weeks ago. It is now possible to carry- on a conversation between these districts with "the • gteafc-' est of ease, whereas a few weeks agol this could be done only -with- oon- , siderable difficulty. * Another direction in which an in*--provement will be found isiniha link 7 between Dunedin i and- the .Nelson and Marlborough' districts. Up to .-the „ present it has been possible to,give, only a limited serviceand Nelson, but the latest menta will permit of an, all day * per-' vice being provided. In reffard'io'ln* vercargill it is now practicable - td; pro- , vide an all day service from this /•**' change to the,principal oeutree .i«yboito the North and Souths Islands, amdl/it' can be guaranteed that thq tjuaij^ f «f 'j the service provided will prove entij*l , " v satisfactory. . «V 1 ■ 1 '