AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1709, 28 March 1913, Page 4

AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE

COMPETITION IN TENDERING.

T!io New Zealand Government, is nssuN ed of competition iu tenders for the installation of the automatic telephone systems for the centres. For some riioiitiis past tlio representative for the Shwger System tons been in Wellington, and it \Vasthat company's set which was put up in the old Geriero.l l J ost Oflice for ikrnie weeks, and was used more recently for show purposes at tlio Citizens' Carnival. ; Qinto rooenlly the Western Electric Company, of America (for whom, Messrs. A. \V. Eiley nn<l Co. are. local agents) have como into the field,, and have set iip a 500-conuectioiis set in the labo'r'iitory of tlio new General Post Offite. lit its. general idea tlio Western Electric Company's system 1 is akin to the StrowSet, but in tJid detailed Working parts And their arrangomi'Ms there Are' considerable differences. The Government has concluded a contract iviththe Strowfjef people: to' erect 500-connections exteiisioris to, both tlio Auckland aiid Wellington eichitiiges, Arid fh&e now be'ing installed, bjit that faot has no bertrinf? on the tenders.for' the, liiaift installations, the tenders' for which do not oloso until the middle of next month.