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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 8

There is one little drawback to the automatic telephone that could bo very easily rectifisd (writes a correspondent). As is known by all who have been supplied with the latest instruments, it is necessary to take the receiver from tlio hook beforo the' number disc is manipulated, and that to replace it means that you are automatically cutoff. That being .the case, it is just a little awkward when a ring is hoard, and 'someone other than tho person who takes the receiver off tho hook is wanted. There is an impulse that restrains onn from dropping tho receiver 'in tho air nnu .allowing it to danglo until tho person wanted is summoned , , and there is no other hook for tho receiver. Most people at once replaeo it on the only hook, with tho result that when the person wanted grasps the receiver ho cannot get an ansiver, having been cut off automatically. The box of tho instrument being only about a quarter tho sizo of the- old stylo one does not present a. fitthg resting place for an 'engaged" receiver, and it. is suggested that a second hook, to bo screwed into the bottom of the box, might be provided for this frequent emergency.