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ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA <• London, Feb. 3. Social calls are actually more numerous at present than business calls over the England to Australia radio telephone. It s understood that one young Australian leaving shortly for his home completed his entire wedding arrangements with his fiancee over the telephone. There is.no immediate likelihood of a ' reduction of charges, the PostmasterGeneral, Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith, said today. He indicated that the service had given satisfaction so far, although he pointed out that it was still more or less in the experimental stage. Mr. Lees-Smith added- that the depression had laturally caused a falling off in receipts.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1931, Page 17 (Supplement)
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