[?]ree Towns Have

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[?]ree Towns Have [?] utomatic Phones

E three chief towns of the Jouth Pacific Islands —Suva, Noumea and Port Moresby— are all equipped with auto : telephone exchanges, and all brought into operation within v months. rt Moresby was first—the ns of that steadily-growing ipolis now are so accustomed ils modern amenity that they st have forgotten the horrors e manual exchange. /a’s new installation came into ition on June 1 (see elsewhere), imea’s new automatic installa which cost 50 million francs, formally opened by Governor aid at noon on April 28; and :ame very smoothly into tion. 4,800 calls were recorded e town within 24 hours. The vith which country connections are made has resulted in a i fall in internal telegraphic ess. Noumea’s auto phones linked at once with the sas radiophone service.