OUR TELEPHONE SYSTEM.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1028, 18 January 1911, Page 4

OUR TELEPHONE SYSTEM.

KOT "UP TO TIIE MINUTE." In tho course of conversation with a Dominion representative prior to leaving Auckland for Sydney by the Maheno on Monday evening Air. A. A. Isbel, of (he United Wireless Company of America, expressed tho opinion that the Government were wise in sending the chief electrician of the Telegraph Department (Mr. Buckley) to America and England. "They are moving ahead in telephone matters all tho time over there, and from my experience in New Zealand you arc not quite up to the minute." In what respect? was asked '-'Well—say smart connection. You do not have to ring at all for your number in the States. The action of lifting oft'-the receiver notifies the Exchange that a number is wanted, and it is given right away, if disengaged —no waiting. Another system is that by which you can connect yourself with the number you require. There is a dial with numbers up to. five figures which you place in the order you want and then speak directly. If the i number is engaged you merely hear h 'buz?,.' Both methods arc a good deal quicker, ana jess troublesome than the 'ring and wait system in Wellington and other New Zealand towns. I know; however, from my own experience, that Mr. Buckley is a really capable electrician—just the man that will absorb the'.'useful and reject the superfluous," added Mr. Isbel.