THE TELEPHONE SERVICE
AN INTERESTING ANNIVERSARY. By Telegraph— Press Assn-intion. Cliristclmrch, Last Night. ' Ait interesting anniversary is that of llii! <J 1 m'isitc-hnix*U Telephone Exchange, winch on Sunday will have been thirty vetiiis in existence, having been officially opened oil October 1, 1881. Peculiarly enough, the exchange opened thirty years ago -with thirty subscribers, anil lias now over 3000. The Cliristclutroh Telephone Exchange was the first to be opened in the Dominion, arid it is indieiitivc <\f the enterprise of ilie citizens that it was opened a.bout four' years after the praeticablonoss of the telephone was demonstrated. The next citv to acquire «n exchange was Auckland, then Dunediti followed, ;md then Wellington.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 30 September 1911, Page 8
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112THE TELEPHONE SERVICE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 30 September 1911, Page 8
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