TELEPHONES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13484, 26 July 1907, Page 5

TELEPHONES.

A GROWING DEMAND.

United Press Association — By Electric

Telegraph. — Copyright. (Received July 26, 9.59 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, July 26.

The Postmaster-General admitted in the House of Representatives that the telephone service was notoriously bad throughout Australia. The Department had neither wire nor machines. This was the result of the enormous demand for telephones... The time was not fir distant when every house would be able to have a telephone at a charge of ona shilling per week.