89,000 Telephone Lines By 1965
Christchurch now has 48.000 telephone subrcribers. but by 1965 89 000 lines will be available. The two new exchanges st Hillmorton and Linwood will add most of the 18,000 extra lines in use by next year, and exchanges to be built at Harewood and Halswell will add another 26,000. The waiting list for telephones is new down to 4000.
The "Post Office Magazine” attributes a great part of the success of the programme tn connect new subscribers to the work of “the rank and file of the lines staff and their overseers.”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29776, 20 March 1962, Page 7
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