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TELEPHONES ON INCREASE HERE
124 MORE WERE IN USE THAN IN 1938, COMPANY REPORT REVEALS
[Welland Tribune, 19 February 1940]
R.D. Hughes, manager of the bell Telephone Company in Welland, has handed to The Tribune a statistical report which shows that an increase of 124 was recorded in the number of telephones in the city in 1929 compared to that of the previous year. The total number in use was 2,277 in 1938 and 2,401 in 1939.
Mr. Hughes sated that if as some authorities contended, the number of telephones in a community formed an excellent barometer of general business, than it would seem that Welland was continuing to progress from this standpoint.
Continuing, Mr. Hughes stated that offices supervised from Welland showed a net gain in the number of telephones of 284, divided as follows: Welland, 124; Port Colborne, 118; Ridgeville, 22; Smithville, 4; Wainfleet, 14; Wellandport, 2. This entire territory, he added, now had a total of 5,293 telephones in service.
Mr. Hughes showed The Tribune the Bell Telephone Company’s annual report for Ontario and Quebec, recording a total of 785,455 bell telephones in use in these two provinces at the end of the year. The records showed a net gain of 20,000 telephones compared with a net gain of 18,804 the previous year. During the year the company paid out $16,928, 825 in wages to its 9,711 employees, 5-825 in wages to its 9,711 employees, 5,008 of whom are women.
The report notes that the number of telephones recorded for 1939 is “an all- time high for Ontario and Quebec.”
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