BRISK BUSINESS

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 7

BRISK BUSINESS

TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE ADVANCES IN NnYEMBEH The telegraphic and telephone business of the Post Office during No\«*m- ; her provided ample evidence of brisk J business conditions in the Dominion, i a substantial advance being made in every section compared with the Telephone exchange connections • than tlie number of relinquishments j during the month, and the expansion |in this respect for twelve months

represents 97il additional subscrib-T<-legraph business shared in the month's activity, the number of ines-M-«'s handled being it 7.713. an iucrojse of 21.u5b oil the figure for gulai'Jv exceed a million and a quarter each month, the November total having bci-n 1.297.723. or *8.177 in excess of the business during the corresponding month of the prexious The use of the telephone to <»\erseas points also showed expansion dining the month, with 137 outward calls and 161 received. The increase in the radio-telephone call* originating in New Zealand was 22.32 per cent compared with November, j 1937.