Musical-Chiming Telephones
(N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, November 13. Telephones with a pushbutton dialling system and musical chimes, replacing the traditional finger-diall-ing and ringing bell, could be introduced in New Zealand within the next decade, said Mr N. H. Griffin, the Dunedin district engineer for the Post Office, today. Mr Griffin has been appointed Post Office Regional Engineer at Wellington, and will leave to take up his new appointment next week. The trend is towards pushbutton telephones, where there are 10 buttons instead of the conventional dial, Mr Griffin said.
This system is starting to be introduced overseas already, on an experimental basis, and “must come to New Zealand within the next decade," he said. "The conventional dial will soon become too slow for dialling to take advantage of
the facilities offered by the new electronic exchanges which are starting to be introduced into New Zealand,” Mr Griffin said. “The ringing bell of the telephone will also disappear soon, and musical chimes, along the lines of the chiming door-bell, are very much on for New Zealand," he said.
Mr Griffin has seen many changes in the Post Office since he first started work as a message boy in Dunedin in 1934.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31836, 14 November 1968, Page 14
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