Although New Zealand already stands very high among the telephone using countries of the world, the demand for this service is-not slackening off. In four .months of the. current financial year, to. July 30, the net increase in exchange connections throughout the .Dominion has been 3092, -including 837 additions in July. The total number of connections is 160,697, and 'the wide use of the telephone for social or domestic purposes is shown by the fact that 72 per cent., or >115,702, are residential telephones. Business connections, however, have shared equally in the rapid advances which have -been constantly recorded for several years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1939, Page 8
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