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TOLLCALL DELAYS

Assurance By Post Office

An assurance that the Post Office was doling everything possible to restore microwave telephone facilities between Christchurch and the North Island was given to the Chamber of Commerce last night.

In a letter to the postal committee read at a meeting of the Chamber’s Council, the regional engineer (Mr H. W. Wilkinson) said that problems connected with the installation of the new microwave system were being ironed out as quickly as possible.

Mr Wilkinson explained that the microwave link had been temporarily opened before Christmas to cope with the heavy flow of traffic. It had been closed early in January to enable engineers to rectify faults. It was impossible, Mr Wilkinson said, to say exactly when all microwave circuits would be restored. This depended to no small extent on the weather, which governed the amount of work that could be done.

In a reply to a member’s question, the Chief Postmaster (Mr J. W. Lincoln) said that telephone traffic clerks did their best to balance the circuit system so that there would be minimum delays for toll calls. It was difficult, he said, to forecast accurately how long delays on toll calls would be. Sudden rushes of business often upset the calculations of operators when giving such information to subscribers.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660203.2.151

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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 14

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TOLLCALL DELAYS Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 14

TOLLCALL DELAYS Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 14

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