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TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH. TRUNK LINES - TO SYDNEY. MELBOURNE, Nov. 25. When the Duke of York opens the now Parliament House at Canberra on May 9 next year, special telephonic and telegraph communication between the Federal capital and Melbourne and Sydney will bo provided. Sydney and Melbourne will each be connected with three direct telephone trunk lines, and there may be special telegraphic facilities between the capital and newspaper offices throughout the Commonwealth. At present a manual telephone exchange at Canberra is in operation, but an automatic exchange service with the whole of Federal territory will have been compleetd before May.
SENDING DUKE’S SPEECH. “The department anticipates. a greater rush for telegraphic business on the occasion of the Duke’s visit,” the postal authorities explained to-day,-“than probably on any other public occasion since federation, and we have therefore arranged to provide an adequate service. There will be also special- cable- offices.” It is hoped that the Duke’s speech will be transmitted from Canberra to London simultaneously with its delivery. '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 8, 7 December 1926, Page 11
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169CANBERRA LINKS Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 8, 7 December 1926, Page 11
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