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Old 25th Feb 2016, 10:06 am   #3
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Default Re: New Zealand Radio-Telegraph Service 1939

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Originally Posted by emeritus View Post
'...especially the antique telephones then in use in rural New Zealand.'
Would they have been 'party line ringing'? I notice father only gave a quick burst of the magneto when he called up the 'local' Post Office. Would another rural dwelling have called in with two or three cranks of the genny?
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