TELEPHONES POPULAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1939, Page 6

TELEPHONES POPULAR

CANADIANS LARGEST PER CAPITA USERS. OTTAWA. Canadians are the largest per capita users of telephones in the world, each person making ah average of 235 calls during 1937. Canada is second in telephone density, or number of {telephones per 100 of the population with 11.89 in 1937 following the United States with 14.39 in 1936, and the only countries - having a greater number of telephoned are the United States, Germany, Great Britain and France. The telephone industry in Canada,, which suffered during the depression ' years is steadily recovering. At the '■ end of 1937, 1,322,794 telephones were in use as compared with the peak year of 1930 when 1,402,861 telephones were recorded. Telephone conversations in 1937 numbered 2,613,806,546, an average of 1,976 calls per telephone, as compared with 2,472,5066,727 calls in 1936. Automatic or dial telephones have increased in number from 562,958 in 1936 to 613,027 in 1937 or 9 per cent. The 51 largest cities of the Dominioh account for 97 per cent of these instruments.