LOCAL TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8535, 16 September 1907, Page 5

LOCAL TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.

From to-day ths local telephone exchange will be operated from the new room prepared for it in the upstairs portion of the Post Office. The rooms, until recently in occupation of the Stock Inspector and his clerical staff, have had the dividing wall removed, the result being a fine large well-lighted apartment, facing Queen Street, for the Telephone Exchange work. For the past few days Mr G. Kemp, from the Electrical Department, Wellington, who has had the assistance of Mr D. E. Parton and Lineman Wilton, of Masterton, has been busily engaged in doing the necessary wiring and getting all in readiness for the changing over oE the 300 odd telephone circuits, the actual transfer taking place after the close of business on Saturday. While a new system of working has not been introduced—the number of subscribers not warranting this at present—a totally new outfit of apparatus has been provided, of an improved pattern, which will eliminate many of the petty faults that will occur in the best regulated Telephone Exchanges. The annunciators are of a smaller and more compact type. Each board provides for 100 subscribers as against 50 in the old pattern, and provision is made for 500 subscribers. The manner of working the plugs is a little different, but conducive to better results, and a special annunciator has been provided for the work' of bureau communications. When once the operators get used to their new surroundings, everything should run with the utmost smoothness. The growing importance of Masterton has justified the change of location of the Exchange. The Telegraph Department is to be congratulated on the manner they have executed the work.

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