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Telephones in Rural Districts. 



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only. Advantage has been taken of these revised guarantee 

 terms in the following instances : — Chewton Mendip ; Cotten- 

 ham, near Cambridge; Ombersley, Worcestershire ; Linton, 

 near Maidstone ; Alderton, near Winchcombe (Glos.) ; Brom- 

 yard, Herefordshire ; Trumpet, near Ledbury ; Littleport and 

 Stretham, near Ely. In these cases a call office has either 

 been opened or is likely to be provided shortly. There are 

 also some other cases under consideration. 



Exchanges have been opened at Edenbridge, Kent, and at 

 Ledbury and Wymondham, Norfolk, without guarantee, and 

 exchanges are being installed at Long Sutton and Sutton 

 Bridge, near Wisbech, and at Lindfield, Sussex. A Post Office 

 call office has been opened at Rogerstone, Newport, Mon., and 

 the National Telephone Company has provided a call office 

 at St. Anne's Park, Bristol. The company also proposes to 

 provide a service at Somersham, Earith, Colne, and Bluntisham 

 in Huntingdonshire, and in the neighbourhood of Helston, 

 Cornwall. 



In the Blairgowrie district in Scotland, the Post Office has 

 opened call offices at Murthly and Caputh, and hopes to be able 

 shortly to meet the requirements of the fruit-growers at Essendy, 

 which lies between Blairgowrie and Caputh. The question of 

 providing a service at Alyth and Meigle in the same district is 

 also under consideration, and enquiries are being made as to the 

 prospect of adequate support for an exchange at Biggar. 



In the North of Ireland large extensions of the telephone 

 system have been carried out during the past year. Dungan- 

 nan, Cookstown, and Omagh now have a service, and exten- 

 sions to Armagh and Enniskillen will be completed shortly. It 

 has not yet been possible to serve the fruit-growing districts of 

 Duleek, Anaghmore, and Richill, but an attempt will be made 

 to obtain guarantees. In the South of Ireland the trunk system 

 has been extended to Clonmel, Cahir, and Killarney. 



Other extensions of the Post Office telephone system, which 

 may be of use to fruit-growers and agriculturists generally, 

 have been made during the year to Wells, Shepton Mallet, 

 Glastonbury, Street ; Stevenage, Herts. ; Bungay, Norfolk ; 

 Harleston, Norfolk; Diss, Suffolk; Eye Suffolk; Halesworth, 

 Suffolk ; Aylsham, Norfolk ; Haverhill, Suffolk ; Dunmow, 



