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Table No. 23 -continued. Table showing the Number of Connections at each Telephone Exchange— continued.

Number of Connections on 31st March. 1913. 1912. Exchange. Connexions. ■*—* Total. ooSSL. Extensionp - Total. Hokitika Kumara Ross I ! i 168 10 34 • 36 178 34 36 160 33 35 6 16i 3; 31 Invercargill Bluff Edendale .. Lumsden Nightcaps .. Orepuki Otautau Riverton Thornbury.. Tuatapere .. VVaimahaka Winton Woodlands . . VVyndham .. Kaikoura Kimbolton Apiti • • i .. i .. ;; 925 230 73 7 16 3 26 14 9 74 1 44 1 13 14 25 I 67 1 13 37 3 38 1 33 13 1,155 80 19 26 14 9 75 45 13 14 26 68 13 40 39 33 13 815 75 15 24 7 8 63 39 12 23 58 10 33 34 29 14 195 7 3 1 * 1 3 1 1,011 8! li a 64 39 * 12 23 59 10 36 35 29 14 Kohukohu Rawene 28 32 28 32 23 29 23 29 Levin Otaki Shannon 67 6 55 3 28 73 58 28 61 55 28 5 3 66 58 28 Mangonui 51 51 41 41 Marton Bull's Huntorville.. 213 II 48 77 2 224 48 79 176 43 48 8 1 184 43 49 Masterton 628 63 691 531 54 585 Napier Greenmeadows 954 237 18 .. - 1,191 18 860 12 203 1,063 12 Nelson Motueka Richmond .. Takaka Wakefield .. 526 51 79 6 27 57 1 39 577 85 27 58 39 466 63 28 51 27 43 2 509 65 28 51 27 New Plymouth Inglewood .. Urenui Waitara Oamara Duntroon . . Kurow Ngapara 502 63 80 1 21 68 3 407 35 19 1 26 19 565 81 21 71 442 20 26 19 445 61 ■•:: 59 389 19 27 18 58 1 * 2 35 1 503 62 * 61 424 20 27 18 Opotiki Whakatane 77 6 47 83 47 64 42 4 68 i2 . * Opened during the year.