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LONDON' AS WORLD'S" PAYJTCH- ... ; . • board: (TJ:P.A. by Elec. Pel. Copyright) /:’■ LONDON, Jan. 2. The Postmaster-General,; in a broadcast talk, ; reyealed that when the link with India *is completed it; "will be possible for anyone throughout the Empire, and'for 95 per cent, of the telephone users throughout the world, to use London which would become the switchboard of 'the ’ world. The record’for a long-distance call was' held by ' an -American film. star, who' telephoned to London from Australia, thence being connected with Los Angoles. ...
When thedair mail system was extended via Singapore to Australia, he said, letters would reach Australia in .14 days. • .
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11835, 4 January 1933, Page 3
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