Settlers' Telephones.
Farmers in t)h® Poverty Bay district have inaugurated what they consider is the most popular system of telephones in'the colony. There are 23 private bureaus in that province, and nearly 200 farms are connected. These private lines are usually carriod on manuka poles ■which are lashed to the fencing posts with wire, 'fa some cases the >op wife of the fence has been utilised, amid when a gateway is met witlre. couple of high poles carry the wire over it, atad: so the compaction is continued. The fences, feowever, do not mtuke good tcleehsw circuits, as bhey are too lia.6te to interruption. The most affective way has been on the manuka poles. These lines cost about £3 & mile. Several settlers will Join in the erection of a wire, with a brunch wire to each homestead. The mam wire is theft carried to a telephone bureau, atml the local submrifcers connects with other bureaux or sutacribers through the DiSttorne exchange. A subecrfber can ring up a country bureau within 25 miles for 3d. No extra charge is made for connecting the country kureafti with the back-block settler.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 263, 22 December 1903, Page 4
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188Settlers' Telephones. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 263, 22 December 1903, Page 4
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