NEW TELEPHONES
KELBURN EXCHANGE OPENED RELIEF FOR THE "WAITING LIST." - The new branch automatio telephone exchange in Upland-road, accommodated in a special ferick building close to the Normal School, is to be opened to-mor-row afternoon. It will ultimately have a capacity of 2000 lines, but the Telegraph Department, with the material on hand and in sight, proposes to install plant for 800 subscribers. In the immediate future, however, the exchange will not J)a.ve a capacity of more than 400 subscribers. The first step to be carried out to' morrow is the conversion from manual to automatic telephones of fifty of the, present subscribers in the district. It may appear that a more | reasonable method would be to begin with people who are waiting for the telephone; but the conversion has\a good reason behind it. Each of the existing subscribers now uses (and monopolises) a line from Kelbuvn to the, main exchange. wires will be used as "trunk" lines between the Kelburn exchange the central one, arid each will be available for any subscriber, so that the fifty lines taken over will be sufficient for several times as many new automatic installations;- A number of new subscribers in the neigh bourhood of the Kelburn branch are now being provided with instruments, whicli can be used very soon after the changing over of the old linea to trunk purposes. The installation of additional'instruments up to the capacity of the exchange will proceed steadily. Karor! and Northland will be' served ,by the Kelburn exchange. The cables for the Karon area are now being put up, and the installation of new subscribers in that area should begin in a week or two. In Northland subscribers will have, to wait longer, as the necessary cables are not yet available. The telephone situation in Wellington has eased very much lately. When the Courtenay-place branch'was opened there was a "waiting list" of almost a thouss and. This has now been cut down to below 300, and it should soon become very much smaller.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 40, 16 August 1921, Page 7
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336NEW TELEPHONES Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 40, 16 August 1921, Page 7
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