TELEPHONE TOLL SYSTEM

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 15

TELEPHONE TOLL SYSTEM

Extension Of N.I. Route

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 29. Another stage is about to be undertaken in extending the Auckland-Wellington telephone toll route to carry ultimately 960 conversations at once. This was announced today by the Post-master-General (Mr T. P. Shand), who said that a contract had been let for the supply of 94 miles of coaxial telephone cable to provide additional toll circuits between Wellington and Palmerston P orth. A similar cable has been laid between Auckland and Hamilton and is partly in use. To provide the link between Hamilton and Palmerston North, a microwave radio toll system operating over a series of radio relay stations will be established. “The annual total of toll calls is now over 38,000,000, and growth over recent years has been at th® rate of 2,000,000 a year,” said Mr Shand. Investigations were now being made into the best means of augmenting the Christchurch-Dun-edin toll circuits, added Mr Shand.

i Theft of Clothes.—Clothing to the value of £l5OO was stolen i from the shop of Mr Dick Fraser, i men’s outfitters, in Tongariro - street, Taupo, on Saturday night. I Both front and back doors of the • building were forced open.— (P.A.)