During the last year good progress has been made with the erection and extension of the mew telephone service under the agreement entered into with the Mutual Telephone Company last spring. Some 500 subscribers are already connected with the exchange, while arrangements are now being made to place underground those cables which were temporarily hung overhead.
'The drawing of the agreement has not deen completed in time to go into the report, but will appear in this year's report. How: ever, the terms of the arrangement' entered into' between the Municipality and the Telephone Company will be found in the published correspondence.
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