TELEPHONE BUSINESS.
NEW TRAFFIC. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 16. Now- telephone connections last month in th'e Dominion totalled 1154, said the Postmaster-General (Hon. I'. Jones) this morning, and except for October, 1935, it was necessary to go back to December, 1930, to find a highci monthly figure. Allowing for relinquishments, the net improvement in February was 549, while the total improvement compared with the previous February was 5051, bringing the number of telephone subscribers to 128,723, or only 3.1 per cent, below the highest peak ever reached in telephone connections in the Dominion . .. Since June last new subscribers added in Auckland were 1600. making the total subscribers in Auckland 16,531, which was approximately 2000 more than Wellington, the next largest exchange in the Dominion.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 17 March 1936, Page 7
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125TELEPHONE BUSINESS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 17 March 1936, Page 7
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