TELEPHONE COMMUNICA TION

Grey River Argus, 25 January 1906, Page 3

TELEPHONE COMMUNICA TION

In regard to the necessity for better telephone communication between" Greymouth and the residents along the Jackson's' railway,' Mr William Morris r yesterday r.eqeived the following telegram" from the Pre mier: — "Have received the following telegram from Sir Joseph Ward, respect, ing telephone business, and I have wired him again, and he has agreed to go into the matter fully himself and as I have told him that the extra wire put. up would be useless expenditure unless the public had the advantage of communicatfon. I feel satjsfiec| !V n6w ''that th6 v ' matter will be ■'■''rectified: "Re deputation that has waited upon you regarding the inadequate telephone service, I shall look into the matter It is impossible, however, in giving telephone facilities unless by providing a number of wires to enable different people to get the use of the wire within the same, hours" ''without waiting- a considerable f time. The' same trouble exists for all the public wires throughout the colony, where there is a large business' done as practically everybody wants to get the use of the wire about the same time, and necessarily they have to wait their turn,, Bu,t inhere "may be something special in ''this particular caseV'a'iid I am asking for further Itifofmation' to ' enable me to judge it."".— R.' J. Seddon. S|r Ro.beivt Pullav, of ' Perth, Scotland, who is in ChritsQllUi leb...iu»*:--now, is one of the tow*-- '" » -„" grant oi .49- ft **'~.:: n " - Mes f r S e fi,, „.^,OOO given by, ,Mr to assist Scottish Univer' sity students. Sir Robert says that the millionaire's gift is largely taken advantage pf , and has proved to be a great boon to many students in Scotland. ;