Where N.Z. is Ahead of France
‘■fXUR little Dominion, so remote from the great centres of population, is, nevertheless, well to the fore in the matter of adopting improved devices,” states the Chamber of Commerce Journal. ‘‘This is well illustrated by the extent to which the automatic telephone has been installed in Hew Zealand. While there were only nine towns in France which had the automatic, telephone at the beginning of this year — Dieppe, Fontainebleau, Le Havre, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Orleans, Rennes and Nichy—in New Zealand (with only about one-thir-tieth the population of France) there were 14 towns so equipped Auckland, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dannevirke, Dunedin, Hamilton, Hawera, Masterton, Napier, Oarnaru, Palmerston North, Ktratford, Wanganui and Wellington:’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 426, 7 August 1928, Page 1
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116Where N.Z. is Ahead of France Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 426, 7 August 1928, Page 1
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