_The Evening Post_, 15 November 1924:
TELEPHONE SERVICES
EXTENSION WORK DELAYED AT
AUCKLAND.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL TO THE POST.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
The notable extension of #telephone services in the #Auckland Exchange area is hindered by an unfortunate delay in obtaining a replacement order of essential apparatus from Europe for the new automatic telephone service, the first shipment having been hopelessly damaged by water, when the steamer #Matatua suffered collision in the English Channel. There are 1000 applications for telephone service, these making a prospective total of 10,000 subscribers for the new system which, with its seven exchanges, will have an actual capacity of 33,000 telephones, and a potential capacity by means of extending apparatus of 100,000 telephones. Meanwhile no appreciable number of new subscribers to the existing system can be connected until the full automatic plant is brought into operation.… It is now stated that the change over to the full system of automatic telephones cannot be made until early in the New Year.
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