TELEPHONES POPULAR
CANADA LEADS THE WORLD. j. OTTAWA. Canada. Canada continues to lead the world as the greatest telephone-using country with 222.4 yearly conversations per capita according to a recent worldwide survey of telephone development. The United States follows with 209.9. Next in order come Denmark with 177.5, Sweden, 159.8; Norway, 87.5; Australia, 76.1; Finland, 68.7; Japan, 68.1; Great Britain, 42.6: and Germany with 38. While the United States is world leader in the matter of telephones per hundred of population, with 14.39. Canada is in second place with 11.48. followed by New Zealand. 11.25; Sweden, 10.97; Denmark. 10.89; Switzerland, 9.86. Great Britain (and Northern Ireland) with 5.93 telephones per hundred leadrs Germany with 5.08 and France with 3.51.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1938, Page 5
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