Telephoning Overseas

Northern Advocate, 13 May 1938, Page 2

Telephoning Overseas

New Zealand's telephone system Ihi’ough the overseas radio channel to Australia and the United Kingdom gives a remarkably wide range of communication which New Zealanders utilise quite substantially. No fewer than 1725 radio calls have originated in one year from the Dominion, the increase- over the previous year being over 57 per cept. Of the 1725 calls. G 32 were to Australia and 158 to the United Kingdom, while in the same period 885 were made from Australia and 50 from the United Kingdom.

* The widespread system of telephone circuits in New Zealand enables the advantage* of overseas radio-telephony to be. extended well beyond the city areas. Overseas radio calls of recent months, for instance, have included the following:—

Otautau-London. Fatumahoe-London. Nelson-Kent, Taumarunui-Scotland, j Masterton-Sydney, Motueka-London. j Napier-Brisbane, Lyttelton-Sydney, i Greymouth-Sydney, Taihape-Sydney, Ihvercargill-Glasgow, . Whangarei Heads-Hobart, and WaikaremoanaSydney. A development which has so greatly improved the efficiency- of New- Zealand’s network of telephone lines has been the introduction of the “carrier” or high-frequency system. It is being constantly extended, and already all the principal towns from Whangarei in the North, New Plymouth and Greymouth in the west, Gisborne on the East Coast, and Invercargill "in the far south, are linked up through the main centres by carrier circuits. Additional high-grade circuits of this character have been recently installed on main routes as follows:

Wellington-Napier, Auckland-Wha-ngarei, Hamilton-Rotorua, Auckland* Rotorua, Wellington-Christchurch, Wellington-Masterton, ChristchurchDunedin.