TELEPHONES IN COLOURS
New Zealand telephone subscribers with an eye for decorative effects may now bring even the handy telephone within the scope of their artistic ideas. Instead of the invariable black, it is now possible to obtain a handset telephone of the highest efficiency'in a bakelite case with' a choice of six colours. The sets are of English manufacture and were designed in conjunction with the British Post Office, which provides them in Chinese red, jade green, and ivory. The-New Zealand Department, in addition to ‘importing telephones in these colours, has secured them in old gold, oxidised silver, and walnut. , .
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21986, 9 January 1937, Page 7
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