TELEPHONES IN AUSTRALIA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 176, 27 July 1907, Page 2

TELEPHONES IN AUSTRALIA.

SCARCITY OF WIRE AND

MACHINES

[press association.] (Received July 26, 9.59 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 26. The Postmaster-General admitted in the House last night that the-tele-phone service was notoriously bad throughout Australia. The Department, he said, had neither wire nor machines. This was the result of the enormous demand for telephones. The time was not far distant when every house would be able to have a telephone at one shilling per week.