TELEPHONE CALLS
HOW THEY AftE RECORDED. SYDNEY, September 1. Eighty thousand small metres —one for every telephone connected with an automatic exchange—register subscribers’ calls in Sydney. An officer of the telephone branch of the Postmaster-General’s Department said that yesterday. When complaints of overcharging for calls were mentioned in the hedeial I ailiament, Mr McColl expressed doubt that the department had these meters. A Daily Telegraph representative was shown 10.000 of them in operation at the City South Telephone Exchange yesterday. When a subscriber lifts his telephone receiver in answer to a call, establishing a circuit, an electric impulse energises a magnet. The magnet draws back a small metal plate, an extension of which operates a cyclometer which has four rows of figures Another device de-energises the magnet. and the metal plate falls back until another circuit is established. Tt is impossible. oTc’als say. to install the meters in private homes. I———
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1937, Page 5
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