1925
13 August 1925
Phenomenal Expansion of Telephone Service.
Mudgee Is Certainly Not Slipping.
We are not the dull and unprogressive community the pessimists would have us believe. There is still plenty of kick in the old town. The telephone statistics supply evidence that our little world still wags. Hark to the glad tidings!
During the past 12 months the expansion of the telephone service in the Mudgee district has been phenomenal. During that time there have been 33 new subscribers enrolled at the Mudgee exchange, and six extensions from telephone already installed; while the following new installations are as follow: Kandos 12 new subscribers; Rylstone, 8 and 1 extension; Cassilis, 14; Running Stream, Clandulla, Yarrabin, Akuna (late Cox's Creek) 2; Cooyal, Linburn, Budgee, Long Creek, Windeyer, Mt. Frome, Twelve Mile, 1; Capertee, 1: Hill End, 6. New public telephones have been established at Triamble, Avisford, Upper Meroo, Lower Botobolar, and Akuna. These places had not been previously connected with a telephone line.
New applications to be connected with telephone exchanges have been received as follows: Mudgee, 1: Hill End, 4: Twelve Mile, 4; Rylstone, 1; Yarrabin, 1; Kandos ? Capertee, 12; Cudgegong, 3: Mt. Knowles. 1. Further applications are expected shortly.
During the current year a new exchange room, with a new and larger switch board, is expected to be erected at Mudgee. New and larger switch boards are to be erected at Kandos and Rylstone, and the line between Mudgee and Bathurst is to be completely renovated and a new trunk line is to be erected between Kandos and Mudgee.
The work is becoming so heavy and important in the district that Mr. Webber, telegraph and telephone line inspector whose head-quarters were at Bathurst, has now been appointed permanently to Mudgee, this portion of the Bathurst district having been made a separate district in that respect.
Mr. H. Cunningham, who has charge of the mechanical part of the telephone business at Mudgee, is a very busy man, and the manner in which he is attending to his work is highly commendable. Not only does he have to look after all telephone instruments at Mudgee, but all over the Mudgee district, and he does this with great satisfaction to the subscribers and the general public.
The mechanical inspector, who has charge of this district, is Mr. R. Morris, of Bathurst, and the whole of the telephone department, both mechanical and constructional is, of course. under the entire supervision of Mr. I. Garcia, engineer, of Dubbo, which town is the headquarters of the western district.
At present there are quite a number of men employed on constructional work in connection with telephone and telegraph lines in this district, there being a gang of six at Cassilis, five at Cooyal, 5 at Mudgee, four between Kandos and Capertee, four at Yarrabin and 4 at Twelve Mile. In addition to these gangs there have been quite a number of casual men employed. Although the growth of the telephone business has been phenomenal in the past, it is expected the work and extensions will continue to boom1
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