POST AND TELEGRAPHS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 4, 28 October 1924, Page 5

POST AND TELEGRAPHS

TELEPHONE EXTENSIONS.

NEW SUBSCRIBERS.

'on. October 27

Referring to telegraph and telephono extensions in the Dominion during the past year the Public Works Statement says:—The persistent demand for tlie quickest and most modern means of communication by telegraph and telephone, and the extension of the telephone-ex-change system to all parts of the country, necessitates greater provision being made year by year for the fuller development of the telegraph and telephone service in New Zealand. The past year's operations involved a , capital expenditure of £717.000 on materials and labour.

Eleven thousand new subscribers were connected to telephone exchange systems. Amongst the lines on which additional telephone and telegraph circuits wore erected were: Stratford-WbangauJomoua, TTrutiU.renu.i and T'ahdra-Tatu>. Provision will be made in. this year’s estimates for the purciujiSg, and laying of a submarine cable across Cook Strait, which will provide telephone communication between the North and South Islands.

The buildings for automatic-tele-phone exchanges at Christchurch and Dunedin are completed, and the work of installing the apparatus will be put in hand at an early date. Tenders have been invited for automatic telephone exchanges at Hawera ami Stratford.