TALKING BUSINESS.
Telephone Exchanges are to be colonial institutions. The (government are reported to have authorised the Telegraph Department to apply the system at the four chief towns, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Each subscriber will pay a yearly lee for having a wire laid to his office or residence, with a telephone attached. (Supposing many offices of business connected with the telegraph office, a merchant would whisper down the telephone trumpet that he wished to speak with Mr So-and So. The telegraph clerk would signal to Mr So-and-So that he was wanted, and then moving a switch in the central office the clerk would put the two persons into conversational communication by connecting their branch wires. When they had talked business enough, the signal would be given and the connection would be instantly severed. In this way any or every subscriber to the telephone exchange would have facility for talking during business hours with any other member, and each would remain in his own office. This is almost tantamount to thinking aloud. London, Paris, New York, and other great cities have utilised the telephone in the same way, on a large scale. New Zealand is not slow to adopt commercia improvements.
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Patea Mail, 26 October 1880, Page 2
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202TALKING BUSINESS. Patea Mail, 26 October 1880, Page 2
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