CALL FOR MORE TELEPHONES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2014, 23 March 1914, Page 5

CALL FOR MORE TELEPHONES.

. RAPID GROWTH OF OUR POST AND TELEGRAPH BUSINESS." .'. .(By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Pongaroa, March 22. Replying .to a local deputation af Pongaroa on Saturday, which complained of the inadequacy of tho telephone ( facilities,. the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher ■' (Minister of Customs and Marine) said that hundreds of such complaints were ';;; coming/tq.tfje, all over; ' 'the country'.'.' ,l The"fact' was "that the' expansion J of tlio K)st;.and Telegraph 'business in.the.Dominion had been mi-. :.:precedonted; , Bad' :■'■' -a-cached'the"position 'ifixafc they would" 1 have to talco steps to provide adequate-' •' Jy for such expansion, , . ' . r - • The facts of the Pongaroa case, as "' put forth-by the deputation; are that r " the town is served by single wires only . to tho towns of ' Pahiatua, Eketahuna, and Danneyirko, and as these wires alsoservo othor small settlements along tho rduto, and also''settlers' with private lilies, tho way is very seldom clear for ' those who wish to speak' through to '■cither of .these, centres., 'An almost oxactly similar difficulty was brought under the "notice'of the Minister at Tuakan a few days ago.