NO WAITING LIST

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 635, 11 April 1929, Page 10

NO WAITING LIST

AUCKLAND’S PHONES PROVISION FOR FUTURE Within a few weeks there * n . 110 telephone waiting-list i n Wu, The extensions to the changes will all have been come?J 5 ‘ and every waiting subscriber ' from the list. * l P«i This will bring Auckland's a,, telephones up to 16.000. and also vide several thousands of install., Crt ‘' for future use. The extensions to the Mt. Eden , niatic exchange have all been " Ulc '’ pleted and the waiting have been provided for. There is 1 a margin for future calls for phoned ihiV area— ollo of the busiest i n Remuera w ill be completed i n , hr two months’ time, but long before th the small waiting list will have hT ; wiped off. Many of the waitin E O' scribers in the Remuera area » provided for through the Mt Eden'” j change, thus doing away with any 2 Within a week the remaining «, 1 scribers at Ouehuuga will have th" phones installed, as the work ot extension in the exchange there h been advanced sufficiently to enah* the engineers to do this. Anyone who desires a telephone « now have one installed. The only 7 ception is party lines. Two-nam lines will be installed in the Remu.. and Mt. Eden exchanges, but th, will not be ready for some time Auckland can now claim the Ur est and best-equipped telephone 2 vice in the Dominion. The central change in Wellesley Street and all .? suburban exchanges have a considV able margin of installations ready f n future subscribers. The long » aj . which previously annoyed would t subscribers were not the fault of iki department, which had the greater difficulty in obtaining some of renecessary equipmentfrom abroad.