MORRINSVILLE NOTES.
TELEPHONE EXTENSIONS. [BT TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.} MORRINSVILLE, Saturday. Two years ago this month the first gang arrived to start -work on tho Morrinsville telephone exchange extensions. Cable lines have been laid, aerials havo been erected for new lines and to replace existing private party lines, and telegraph lines have been transferred from the railway lines to roads. A total of 45 linesmen were engaged but the number has now been reduced to 29, a large gang having been removed last week to the Paeroa district. The work of removing the line from along tho railway to the road in the Motumaoho district, and tho running of lines in the Kiwitahi, Kereone and Tauhei districts is now proceeding. All settlers and others in the vicinity of Morrinsville who have been waiting for tho telephone are now connected up. The district under the control of tho Morrinsville linesmen has" recently been oxtended to include Fatetonga. Tho vital statistics for Morrinsville for the quarter ended Jilne 30 aro as follows, the figures for the corresponding quarter' last year being given in parenthesesßirths, 34 (37); marriages. 8 (6); deaths, 5 (4).
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19062, 6 July 1925, Page 11
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