TELEPHONE TALKERS
CANADIANS HEAD THE LIST. Since the outbreak of war, Canadians—for 12 consecutive years rated as the world's greatest telephone talkers —have' been doing more calling than ever before, according to figures just released by the statistical department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. These figures bring the record up to' January 1, 1940. On the average each person in Canada in 1939 placed 246.3 telephone calls, as compared with 235 the previous year. Canada ranks fourth in telephone development with 12.35 telephones for every hundred persons. First is the United States with 15.85, followed by Sweden with 13.64, and New Zealand with 13.28. In the total number of telephones, Canada ranks fifth, having 1,397,272 in use.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 3
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