LONG DISTANCE LINES
TELEPHONY FROM BRISBANE TO MELBOURNE.
(UNITED TBESS ASSOCIATION. COPTMGJIT.)
SYDNEY, 11th October. A new telephone trunk line from Brisbane to Sydney was opened yesterday. The cost of using it is 5s 8d for three minutes, or 10s between Brisbane and Melbourne. Two "repeaters" are installed, at Singleton and Gleninnes, and magnify speech- to a startling extent. Both Mr. Lawson (Premier of Victoria) and Sir George Fuller (Premier of New South Wales) called up Mr. Theodore (Premier of Queensland) for conversation to signalise the inauguration of the new service. Mr. W. G. Gibson, Federal Postmaster-General, hopes shortly to connect Adelaide with Brisbane by telephone.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 7
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106LONG DISTANCE LINES Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 7
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