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Salient. Special Salient Issue. Careers Information Week. 1961

Telephones

Telephones

With 30.85 telephones per 100 population, New Zealand ranks fifth in the world for telephone density. There are now 744,749 telephones and 504 telephone exchanges in the country. Although 53,600 telephones were installed last year, and new exchanges are being erected all the time, the Post Office has been unable to satisfy the demand for telephone service, and future expansion will have to be stepped up. Other future plans are to extend the areas in which subscriber dialling can be made, and to continue with the conversion from manual to automatic exchanges. Last year telephone rentals brought the Post Office £8,580,652, and toll charges £5,620,236.