TELEPHONE POPULAR

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 404, 10 April 1937, Page 6

TELEPHONE POPULAR

New Zealand Installations. press Association —Copyright. Dunedin, April 9. “Tflis has been a record breaking year for the telephone sy.ltem,” sta : ted the Postmaster-Genera/, Hon. F, Jones, tonight, in giving the 1 results for this branch of the Post and Telegraph Department fqr .the financial year just ended. “.Last September,” continued the Minister, "the first record was made when the total number of .subscribers passed the .best peak point the pre-depretsion period. The end of the financial year saw the previous point exceeded by no fewer than 5,3'22 sub scribers. “New connections made during- title year also constituted a record. H was in 1926 that the telephone system showed its .greatest expansion with the addition of 13,368 new subscribers, but. in the year just ende.l no fewer than 16,589 fresh connections were made to the Dominion's' exchanges. Allowing fo?r ments, .the ne’tit gain last year has been :8,975 subscribers, iv.'hich cpns’.itutes a third record, because during the whole history of the telephone system, when it 'Was .growing rapidly from small proportions, this rate of gain has never been experienced, last year's record being at least 700 bet- 1 ter than the gain in any previous twelve months.”