QUICK WORK.
THE BISHOP & HIS TELEPHONE. Realising that once a prospective telephone subscriber has signed his application he will count the (lays before the instrument is installed, the Post Office organisation works quickly and keeps careful check of results. The Wellington staff, according to information recently published by the Post Office, led in the race, and it received a public tribute to its celerity from the Rt. Rev. St. Barbe Holland, M.A., the new Bishop of Wellington, who, in acknowledging a civic welcome, remarked “Everybody seemed most anxious to be friendly and obliging and to help make a newcomer feel at home. New Zealand, he imagined, was one of the few countries in the world where you could ask the Post and Telegraph Department to install a telephone at 11 a.m. and be using it at 4 .m. He intended to write the British PostmasterGeneral about it.”
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Wairarapa Age, 4 August 1936, Page 2
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