Twelve new telephone exchanges wen* opened by iho Postal Department during the past year, aud' the number of excha ng© count otions increased bv -IS;W. Three hundred and ninety miles of pole-line and 213(5 miles of wire were added to tho telegraph and inie.r-urb;in telephone system, and 010 miles of pole-line and 34,32-5 miles of win. l to the telephone exchange local systems. Olio thousand six hundred and thirty-seven miles of telegraph and ini'T-urban telephone lines wore overhauled rat] reconstructed. During the vonr f:;rt.v-sis coin-in-siot telephones wen' in tdiled, making a, total of 1-30 slu'. telet"hones npcri for t>ubK<: use.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 5
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