Popularity Of The Good Old Party Line
That the telephone service to Murupara is barely adequate a few weeks after the opening of the automatic exchange is indicated. “You just can’t get on a line between 7 and 10 p.m.” says a Galatea party-line user. “Women ring their friends. School kids ring their cobbers. There are dozens of roll calls.” “We don’t need your newspaper now that we have party-lines,” he added.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 15, 3 November 1950, Page 5
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72Popularity Of The Good Old Party Line Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 15, 3 November 1950, Page 5
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