Self-acting Telephones.
Three of the automatics telephones embodying Dr Clendennin's patent have been constructed by the Victorian Post and Telegraph Department (says the "Argus "), and will be placed one at each end of the metropolitan railway station?, in positions where they will be accessible to the public on week days and Sundays during railway hours. The fee for a conversation with a subscriber in Melbourne or the suburbs will be 61, which must be placed in the slot, bat if the subscriber wanted 19 not available the machine will iuslantly di?govge the coin. O.her machines are now being manufactured and by the end of the month the D/partmont expects to have about twenty five ready for disposition in various business places in the city. A great many applications have been received for the machines, and an officer is to be s^nt round to select most suitable place?. As the telephones are self-acting, they will cause no inconvenience beyond occupying a certain amount of space and the Department will not, there fare, remunerate the business people who receive them. Dr Glendennin. the patentee, is by a contract with the Department to receive a per. centage of tha revenue (Wived.
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Manawatu Herald, 12 August 1899, Page 3
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198Self-acting Telephones. Manawatu Herald, 12 August 1899, Page 3
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