TELEPHONE MATTERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1680, 1 March 1917, Page 2

TELEPHONE MATTERS.

ONE hundred telephone subscribers ;ire required before Eoxton can participate in the privileges of an 8 a.in. to 10 pan. telephone service. At present Eoxton is a back number with an 8 a.m. to 8 pan. service. Owing to Eoxton’s dead end railway arrangements and consequent inconvenient postal service, the telephone is, under the peculiar circumstances, of vital importance as a means of communication to business and professional men. The two hours between 8 and 10 p.m. is (lie time must suited owing to our postal arrangements, for important communications, yet because of an unreasonable regulation the service is curtailed. Eor several years local telephone subscribers have numbered within three or four of the required one hundred. Kecently the minimum number was reached, but almost simultaneously two subscribers pulled out, and we are left in the old position. The postmaster informs us that there is a prospect of the required number being obtained at an early dale, tint in the meantime the old order remaiueth, and we are compelled to put up with the restriction of an obsolete regulation which should have 1 been struck out years ago, Hut talking of telephones, can any one give a reason why Eoxton subscribers are compelled to double ring for every connection? We don’t know of any other exchange where such a rule obtains. The connection should he made direct fn an the exchange instead of the subscriber giving another ring after being plugged on to the number required. It’s another case of ‘‘as it was in the beginning, etc.’ - '