Some phones still out
It will be several days yet before al! Christchurch subscribers will have the use of their telephones. New faults are still being reported (30 overnight on’ Tuesday), and repairmen are finding the task is taking longer than expected. Between 3000 and 7000 subscribers in Christchurch' nd districts are believed to be without telephones. Sixty cables have vet to be
examined, although 28 faults were worked on yesterday. “We are a little dismayed; at the length of time repairs! are taking us.” said the Post;' ■Office telephone supervising h engineer (Mr B. L. Pattrick).i: "Many business and residen-'i tial subscribers are letting 1 us know they don’t appre-:’ ciate being without services.! "But some of these faults/ are very hard to locate. They ’ are mainly caused by water J Ml
in the joints of buried cables, and we have to find; i the joints.” ' Repair gangs have been; working from first light until! .dark, with 31 gangs working! yesterday and 40 today.! Servicemen have been drawn! from Rangiora. Lincoln, Tai: Tapu, and Banks Peninsula.; "We are making a special! effort,” said Mr Pattrick.l “We hope to make a big; hole in it today.”
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Press, 7 July 1977, Page 6
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