BEAM RADIO FOR TOLL CALLS
NEW STATIONS TO BE BUILT A beam radio to relay telephone toll calls between Christchurch and Wellington, which will give an extra 24telephone channels between the cities, will probably be available before the end of next year. The Post and Telegraph Department intends to build a radio station on Marley’s Hill, near the Lewisham Convalescent Home on Cashmere Hills and some of the preliminary work has already begun. Intermediate stations will be built at Manuka Bay, on the coast near Cheviot, at Kaikoura, and at Weld Cone near Ward in Marlborough. These stations will carry the beam from Christchurch in an unbtoken line to Wellington and they will be particularly valuable should the normal land lines be put out of operation. Later there is likely to be a double beam to Wellington and another to Dunedin. On the southern line the first intermediate station will be near Ashburton. Equipment for the new stations has been ordered and some is now on its way to New Zealand.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27010, 9 April 1953, Page 7
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