TELEPHONE GAINS MAINTAINED
Telephones in service in the Dominion at the' end of February reached the high total of 146,770, the gain in that month having been 763. Telephone business has been extending rapidly for two years, and it might be expected that, after making progress at the rate of over 700 additipnal telephones per month, the pace would slacken, because the service would be approaching the point of potential maximum demand.
However, business activity has created the need for additional communication facilities, and the Post Office has no£ been slow in widening the range of telephone use by means of extended toll services and concession rates during the least busy’periods of the day.
The' result has been to- bring the telephone more and more into general use for business and social purposes, and the rate of expansion has not declined. A year to year survey of its expansion shows that for the- twelve months ended February, 1936, the gain in telephone subscribers was 5,051; in the following February the increase disclosed was 8651.
The latest figures are higher than those of the corresponding date of last year to the extent of 9396.
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Northern Advocate, 1 April 1938, Page 5
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