TELEPHONE SERVICE
MANY NEW SUBSCRIBERS APPROACHING PEAK LEVEL (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 16. New telephone connections last month in the Dominion totalled 1154, said the Postmaster-general (Mr F. Jones) this morning, ami except for October, 1935, it was necessary to go back to December, 1930, to find a higher monthly figure. Allowing for relinquishments, the net improvement in February was 549, while the total improvement compared with the previous February was 5051, bringing the number of telephone subscribers to 128,723, or only 3.1 per cent, below the highest peak ever reached in telephone connections in the Dominion. Since June last new subscribers added at Auckland numbered 1600, making the total ot subscribers in Auckland 16,531, which is approximately 2000 more than Wellington, the next largest exchange in the Dominion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22832, 17 March 1936, Page 6
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131TELEPHONE SERVICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22832, 17 March 1936, Page 6
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