Busy Night For Post And Telegraph
AUCKLAND, August 1. Special telegraph circuits have been arranged by the Department for some offices so that deputy returning pfficers can communicate direct with their eleetoral returning officer. It will take something like a quarter of a million words to tell the Chief Elnctoral Officei progress and final results of the refer end utu on eompulsorv military trainui- • on Wednesday. Nearly 2000 Post Offices will throw in their transmissiou lervices to get the votes from polling olac.es to the eleetoral retukning offieer.s and tlien to the General Post Offi'ce, Wellington, for the grand tally.^ Each of the 80 returning offieers, having re ceived by telegraph and telephone figures from his deputies, will send five progress reports to the General Post Office. , . . \
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 August 1949, Page 5
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