Mr J. Collins, of Blidworth, Nottingham, has just resigned as registrar because at 04 he is getting a trifle deaf. Out of the 32,000,000 telephones in use throughout the world, Great Britain has only 1,633,802. In America there arc 16 telephones to every 100 inhabitants; in Great Britain, the tenth country on the list, the telephones per 100 arc only 3.6.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6911, 17 May 1929, Page 3
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