Long distance telephones are larg ly used for official purposes. They are still not popular for commercial of private communication. Liu-chow, for example, during the month of March which is the busiest time, had only about 612 calls other than official with the average of only about 20 calls per day. 'The Provincial Government. has planned to improve the Tong distance' network and I was asked to investigate the plan. From my personal point of view, Wu-chow, Nanning, Lung-chow, Po-sha, Liu: chow and Kwelling' should be the {group switching centres with Nanning.
the toll centre of the province 10 be connected with the toll centres of the other provinces. If telegraph ines, rural and long distance telephone lines use the same poles, it will be much more economical.
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