DELUGE OF GREETINGS,
WORK ON TELEGRAPH. STAFFS AT HIGH PRESSURE. From all indications previous , records have been eclipsed at the Ham- _ ilton Telegraph Office over the.* Christmas season. The new form of greetings telegrams, with its variety of messages open to the choice of ./the sender, lias proved extremely popular with the public, and the local staff has been literally snowed under with the weight of the traffic.
Similar conditions, it is reported, have prevailed over the Dominion, and the staffs of the telegraph operating rooms of the metropolitan areas and . in many cases of the principal pro-, vincial towns have worked the “clock., round” and then been recalled for • furl her duly on Christmas Day.
Evidently the public has responded lo the department’s advertising paign in an extraordinary way. Fortunately for the public and staff fine weather lias prevailed, throughout Hie country, the telegraph circuits thus being able to ho utilised at tlic maximum efficiency.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19459, 26 December 1934, Page 8
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156DELUGE OF GREETINGS, Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19459, 26 December 1934, Page 8
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