TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH
» DELAY IN DELIVERY OF APPARATUS.! (IT T*LB«RAM!— TRKSS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 22nd June. In conversation with a reporter to-day regarding the work of his Department, with special reference to the_ effect of the war upon orders for material, the Hon. R._ Heaton Rhodes, Postmaster-General, said that not only was the war delaying the delivery of automatic telephone apparatus for Auckland and Wellington, and several of the smaller places where improved services were urgently needed, but it was delaying the ( installation of the Murray multiplex printing telegraph apparatus, and this immediately concerned Christchurch, for two quadruplex sets had been under order for some months— one for the Wellington-Christchurch and the other for the. Wollington-Auckland circuit. The apparatus would, it was confidently expected, onormoii'slv iiiri-ea-so the carrying capacity of those circuits enabling eight messages (four torwarUed and tour received) to be sent over a single wire simultaneously, and- so lesson the cost of transmission. Mr. Rhodes mentioned that he had recenfiy received a letter from Mr. Murray, dated London, 23rd April, which showed tne great difficulty he wat. experiencing in getting his work done.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 8
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