TELEPHONES AND MOTORS
MORE POST OFFICE RECORDS. The Motor Registration Branch of the Post Oilice in recently surveying the growth in registrations this year showed that in seven out of nine months records were made for these particular months. The October registration figures disclose that not since the passing of the Motor Vehicles Act has there been so large a number of registrations in the month of October. They comprised—cars 2056, commercial vehicles 799, and I motor cycles 320, making a total of 3175 which beats any previous October I record by 458. j October was also a month of records in the telephone branch of the Post Office, the number of new connections, 1506, never before being reached in any month, and the total net gain in subscribers for October, 900, was another achievement which has not previously been reached. Telephone subscribers of the Dominion now total 134,365, or 1.1 per cent, more than the pre-depression peak point of Deccm-1 ber, 1930.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 25 November 1936, Page 11
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