TELEPHONE SERVICE
BETWEEN WELLINGTON AND AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Nigh;. The Telegraph Department has nearly completed arrangements for the inauguration of a new telephone service between Wellington and Auckland. Some construction work remains to bo done before the service can be established on a. permanent footing, but by means of temporary arrangements, it is hoped to give a partial service within a month. The new double line for this telephone ~service is 410 miles in length, and 150 tons of copper wire, valued at £'ls,000, is being used in cnii.struoti.in_ Tho lines will he used for telegraph as well as telephone work, and the necessities of the telegraph will curtail the use of the wires for conversation purposes, but it is hoped to assign two hours during the day, and tho greater part of the night for telephonic service. The charges for this long distance talking have not vet been fixed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 February 1913, Page 5
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153TELEPHONE SERVICE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 February 1913, Page 5
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