“The flats in California have modern and ingenious devices and appointments quite unknown in New Zealand, ” said Mr. G. M. Spence, in the course of an address to the New Plypouth Rotarians on Monday. At the main entrance of the best flats was located a set of electric bell buttons, each distinguished by the name of one of the people living in the flat, he continued. The visitor pushed the button that would sound the bell in his friend’s apartment, and if the friend was at home he would in his turn press a button that automatically opened the front door an inch or two, giving access to the visitor. If the friend did not want to see any visitors, obviously they could not. got in.
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Shannon News, 5 October 1926, Page 2
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