TELEPHONE BOXES

Press, Issue 29236, 21 June 1960, Page 12

TELEPHONE BOXES

Avonhead Area

Delays

Material shortages and residents’ protests have stopped the Post Office installing new public telephone boxes in the Avonhead area.

They have meant that only one of four proposed new call stations has been established in the area —at the comer of Waimairi road and Wentworth street. A proposal to install a station at the corner ot Avonhead and Withells roads has been delayed “due to objections by nearby residents to the proposed site.” according to the Post Office regional engineer (Mr W. J. Service).

“However, a new site in Avonhead road, opposite Withells road has now been obtained and the telephone should be installed in the very near future,” he says in a letter to the member of Parliament for Riccarton (Mr M. A. Connelly). Mr Connelly made representations for an improved public telephone service on behalf of the Avonhead Residents’ Association.

The proposed new box at the corner of Waimairi and Annandale roads will be in service about the same time, the Post Office reports. Mr Service has told Mr Connelly he regrets that because no cable pair is available in the underground system the telephone which is proposed for the corner of Dinton and Russley streets “will be further delayed, probably until early next year.”