USE OF TELEPHONES
New Zealand Takes Third Place In World
New Zealand occupies third position in the world in the number of telephones used in proportion to the population, according to advice received from the Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr. G. McNamara. During the two previous years New Zealand filled fourth position. The density in the leading countries is as follows: United States of America, 14.39 a hundred of population ; Canada, 11.48; New Zealand. 11.25; Sweden, 10.97; Denmark, 10.89. Australia and Groat. Britain occupy seventh and ninth places with densities of 8.31 and 5.93 respectively. On March 31 of the present year the density in New Zealand had risen to 11.97, compared with a density of 10 in 1934. In New Zealand, telephones are well distributed throughout rural as well as urban areas. This is well illustrated by the fact that in a world table showing the number of telephones a hundred of population in communities of less than 50,000, New Zealand, with a density of 10.19, takes second place only to the United States, which in this respect has a density of 10.33.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 271, 12 August 1938, Page 15
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187USE OF TELEPHONES Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 271, 12 August 1938, Page 15
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