25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 203, 25 May 1936, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

Telephone Girls’ Fate

(From “The Dominion,” May 26, 1911.)

Is the telephone girl doomed? Well, the “automatic” looms near, apt! meantime one waits to see. One of the special branches of inquiry to be made by Mr. T. Buckley, chief electrician to the Post and Telegraph Department, on bis present visit to America is the automatic and semi-automatic telephone systems.

Not only in London, not only in tiie British Isles, but also in every part of the greatest Empire the world has ever known guns will boom at the exact moment when the crown is placed on the head of the King in Westminster Abbey on Thursday, June 22. The shouts of "Long live the King”! as they resound through the abbey will find an echo in the most distant parts of the world. In those parts of lhe Empire where it is daylight when it is 2 o’clock at Westminster guns will lie tired, and in those places where it is night rockets or bombs will be let off. Another accident has been added to the tale of accidents in the Ngahauranga Gorge Road, reinforcing the arguments previously put forward for an immediate scheme of.road improvement for that dangerous thoroughfare. (The engineer at Dymock and Co.,’s works, Ngahauranga, was thrown out of his trap at “IS Corner” and injured the previous, day.]