NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10519, 6 January 1912, Page 5

NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM

BETWEEN MASTERiTON AND CARSWELLS. ! The Mapteiitoai and East Coast j Private Tekphone Companies have recently instaJl'ed between the Ma,stea'tioii exchange ama the Oar swells private exchange a new system of telephone communication which is unique so far as rural' telephoaies' are ■ concerned' in tdvls country, and' wliidli roarks a long sit'ep in advance in telephone advancement in tUie country districts, in ciienipemng the cost i •of construction. It was early recognised by the Cumpany that the old earth working trunk wires hetweciv the cxchaiiiges "were' hiopele&sily din adequate to oa ri'y th'e traffic required of them, white the inductioni was 1 so excessave that simUilitameouis conversatioix& were practioa®y inajpO'Ssible. Metallic cdircuits, the oiiily remedy for cross-talking,, were very costly until it was discovered that iby the proper coainectioax of ll'uies and trnnrfsrmers tiiTCO rron veil'satioii'S (rould be caa'ried on over foiii' instead of six wires, tus formerly, wi.thor.fc ioii any Avay interfering with .each other, or any possibility cf being overboard, ini spite of the fact that in somie cases two .conversations! aa*e practically beinig carried on ovea* the same at tlie same time.

The system is tenwii as s uperimposiiiiig, 11 or "pihaaitom cireuilt working.," a-ncl is. extensively used in America- for cdxui/try telephone comm imitation. , .

The Company, witlh- characyteristic etniterprii&e, decided) ito Siiatve such a system iflisftallted for their trunk circuits, and thea-eby saved, an outlay of consc'deraiWy over £2OO. I lie work was cairaied. out by Messrs Jackson Bros., uiiuei" the direction of Mr Keith 0. Jackson, eleotrkiun for the Masteuto-n Pm«»t© Telephone Am."iatioro, aaid iks giving most s-aiisfait-ory resnlt&.