TOLL CALLS BY METER SYSTEM IN FUTURE YEARS

Grey River Argus, 13 October 1948, Page 6

TOLL CALLS BY METER SYSTEM IN FUTURE YEARS

P A. WELLINGTON, Oct. 12 a' forecast that it would one day oossiole ioi‘ Wellington telephone subocrmers to ring anywhere m Nmv Zealand witnout xirst ringing tne telenhone exchange was maae tq-aay by a lormer Deputy cnief Kngmeei of the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr A. D. Baggs ,who retired ie Mr t baggs said that telephone operators womd eventually be replaced by meters, which would record long dl “Thi? system is working to-day in Caifornia, Switzerland, and Belgium, and with a 50-miles limit in Britain, but it will be a long, long tune before it will be possible to establish it here," he said.' Mr Baggs arranged the first radio telephone broadcast from New Zealand following the Napier earthquake in 1931, and assisted in establishing the first tolls service between the North and South Bands.