Orders Worth $545,000

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31904, 4 February 1969, Page 14

Orders Worth $545,000

(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Feb. 3. Automatic telephone exchange equipment for about 1000 lines has been ordered by the New Zealand Post Office from a Coventry firm, 3ec-Aei Telecommunications, Ltd. Reporting this today, the Board of Trade said Malay-

Automatic telephone exchange equipment for about 4000 lines has been ordered by the New Zealand Post Office from a Coventry firm, Gec-Aei Telecommunications, Ltd.

Reporting this today, the Board of Trade said Malaysia’s Department of Posts and Telecommunications had also sought equipment for four rural exchanges in Sarawak The two orders were worth about 8545,000. The board said the same firm was to supply two new micro-wave radio links to Fiji. Contracts awarded to the company by the Fiji Posts and Telegraph Department last year totalled about $200,000.

ton has shown in the House and in “The Press” that the Government is doing little for the farm training schemes. Mr H. J. Walker, National member for St Albans hotly denied Mr Connelly’s statements and listed what he called the Government’s achievements in this field. His whitewashing was soon peeled off by Federated Farmers who sent a telegram to Wellington saying that the local farm training scheme was endangered by a ' shortage of vocational guidance officers. —Yours, etc., “DISILLUSIONED NATIONALIST.” February 2, 1969.