NEW TELEPHONE IDEAS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1734, 26 April 1913, Page 4

NEW TELEPHONE IDEAS.

4 — EEMAEKS BY HON. E. H. EHODES. (By Telegraph.—Prcf»s Association.) Dunedin, April 25. At tlio opening of the post offlco at E-avensbourne to-day tho Hon. E. Hcaton Khodes, Postmaster-General, stated that tenders had .been called for full automatic telephone exchanges at six places in tlio Dominion, viz., Auckland, Wellington, Blenheim, Hamilton, Masterton, and Oamaru. The tenders would closo at thb' beginning of next month. Agents representing the principal automatic telephone firms 411 tlio world had been in Wellington ascertaining conditions, and there was evidence that there would bo keen competition. Tlio new system would extend to other places Inter. • Tho Department now had under consideration tlio question of providing a ; submarine cable across Cook Strait, especially adaptable for telephoning purposes. This cable, in conjunction with a modification and extension of existing land lines, would render practicable telephone conversation from Auckland to tho

Attention was boing given by telegraph . ® experts iiS other countries to _ a direct printing telegraph apparatus, and tho De- t ' : partmcnt was obtaining full information ' with regard to the matter.