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UNNECESSARY USE OF TELEPHONE

WE have been asked to lend emphasis to the absolute necessity of telephone subscribers to abstain to the greatest possible extent from using their telephones for the purpose of ordinary conversation during emergencies such as have been experienced in and around Whakatarle twice during the past few weeks. Despite instructions issued in E.P.S. circulars and the press it is obvious, judging by the experience at the local telephone exchange, that very little effort is made by subscribers to restrict the use of their telephones to emergency or important calls at such times. Following the recent cloudburst the local telephone exchange was inundated with calls to such an, extent that it was physically impossible to handle them without considerable delay. It will b& appreciated that it is not possible at the outset, to distinguish between emergency calls and unimportant calls with the result that the safety of life' and property may be endangered by the delay in answering the call. Subscribers are therefore again asked not to use the telephone during an emergency unless it is absolutely necessary and then to keep their conversations to a minimum.

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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 58, 21 March 1944, Page 4

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UNNECESSARY USE OF TELEPHONE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 58, 21 March 1944, Page 4

UNNECESSARY USE OF TELEPHONE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 58, 21 March 1944, Page 4

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