TELEPHONE BRAINS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11163, 20 March 1922, Page 7

TELEPHONE BRAINS

AMERICAN PRAISE OF BRITISH SERVICE. LONDON, January 24. Sir WiUJam Noble, speaking In London, said they heard a areas deal of ohaff at tee expense of tee Civil Service nowadays, but he might say that the new Prime Minister of the Irish Free State was once a junior poet office official, and that the Minister for Defence of teat State was one of his own ■desks. That showed, at any rate, that the Qivil Service had some ability. They had in the post office service at tile present time some .of the hast telephone brains in the world, and they were working seven days a week to improve the service. He bad it on the authority of , Amerioan engineers, who had recently been hehe on a tour of inspection, that the London teleplume service was equal, if not superior, to tee service in New York. Sir Wilfrid Atlay, chairman of the Stock Exchange, said that, so far as the Stock Exchange were oonoerned, they haa nothing but praise for the way the Government had done every? thing they bad asked them to do to improve the telephone service.