Telephone System Will be Extended

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 387, 22 June 1928, Page 8

Telephone System Will be Extended

TOLL IMPROVEMENTS LINKING ALL DOMINION Press Association. WELLINGTON. Thursda,One of the results of the i... 1" Lons made by the chief te-ecAnif* 11 ®*' neer when he was abroad laird’s; be the early introduction into .W,* 11 and telephone practice of known as the "carrier current",,., 1 * phone, one ot the most r™ ar i‘J* »T Ce < , ieVel ° pmen,s ia the tied % electrical communication. The announcement was mad. k. . Minister of Telegraphs. tJT£o£ £ Nosworthy, to-day. “• *. After careful consideration of tv long-distance telephone needs of IT Dominion.” he said, "and after the eT pa ration of an ultimate scheme* complete execution of which will t • low as need arises, it has been to procure from th United K'nerW carrier equipment that will and greatly improve toll facilitiesT tween Auckland and WollingtonTAnS' land and Hamilton. Palmerston, and their switching ST tricts, and will duplicate the art*S£ toll outlet connecting Christchurch the northern districts of the wt Island and Wellington. RELIEVING CONGESTION “The installation of this equipmer,, will not only relieve the congeSti' which now exists between the named but will also provide a maftb of circuits over and ahove the imm£' ate requirements, and will thus to promote traffic between points when under existing conditions. developmeV has in the past been somewhat i. tarded. "As the circuits referred to for-, important links in the chain of Donp. nion toll inter-communication." he cor tinued. “there will bo a marked ft' provement in the quality of speech between all the principal centres in New Zealand. As business develops In the long-distance telephone field, th* scheme will be further extended, so that ui tl mately it will be possible to provide a Dominion-wide telephone service which will enable anyone anywhere to pick up a telephone and converse without difficulty with anyone in any other part of the country.”