TELEPHONE CALLS
NEW TOLL SERVICE distribution system At midnight tonight the Wellington Telephone -Exchange will bring into operation its central distribution system for toll communications. There will be nothing spectacular about the process, but users of the toll system will realise from experience that it gives them a more direct personal service. , The central board operators, when they hear the preliminary request from the subscriber, will only want to know the name of the town with which speech is required. This will enable them to switch the call to the attendant controlling that particular channel, and the details having been given to him, the whole transaction is completed by that operator. Any question arising in connection with this call will be dealt with only by that operator with whom the subscriber gets into touch by dialling 390 and again mentioning the town. The central board is, in eflect, a complete distributing centre which may switch the widest variety of calls into the right channel whether they are local or to the ends of New Zealand or the other side of the world.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1937, Page 10
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182TELEPHONE CALLS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1937, Page 10
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