WIDER RURAL SERVICE
TELEPHONES IN BRITAIN (Brltlsb Official Wireless.! RUGBY, June 10. A programme of telephone development which the Post Office has prepared will involve an expenditure of over £4,500,000 on underground cables and equipment alone. The programme is designed to ensure that remoter rural areas shall enjoy a service not less efficient than towns and urban districts. WELCOME RAIN IN N.S.W. SYDNEY, June 11. General rain is falling in New South Wales, and will greatly benefit agricultural and pastoral areas which have been more or less experiencing a severe drought, the effects of which are reflected in a lower percentage of lambing. Some graziers have been handfeeding stock for over four months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 9
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113WIDER RURAL SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 9
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