MASTERTON TELEPHONE SERVICE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10241, 18 May 1911, Page 5

MASTERTON TELEPHONE SERVICE.

IS IT TO 3E RE-JVSODELLED? , \

For several months past a staff of some half-dozen men "have been busily engaged in grouping the telephone wires and carrying out general reconstruction work in connection with this * important branch of the Post Office. What the ultimate result of these elaborate preparations will be, it is isomewhat difficult to forecast. Certainly there is a good deal of mystery about the whole 1 .business. Rumour has it that the old telephone service is to be thrown aside, and; replaced with one that is thoroughly up-to-date. If this is true it will be welcome news for the loca.l subscribers, as the .service is, considering the number on the exchange list, far ibehind the times. It is also stated that nothing will be done in the matted until the return of the Chief Electrician, who is at present on a visit to the Old Country, making inquiries into the various telephone .systems. A reporter of the Wairarapa Age interviewed Mr S. Inder, Postmaster, yesterday, but that- official, whilst admitting that important recon s traction work was being carried out in Masterton, was very reticent as to what was to be the outoome of the present preparations.