Subscriber Truck Dialling (S.T.D.) came to Koo Wee Rup on Sunday June 24, 1973, so you no longer had to ring an operator to have a call put through to another exchange or interstate. On the same day telephone subscribers from Bayles, Beaconsfield Upper, Lang Lang, Nar Nar Goon, Nar Nar Goon North, Officer, Pakenham, Pakenham South, Pakenham Upper, The Gurdies and Yannathan South could also access S.T.D. calls. People also received a new 6-digit telephone number (with an 059 area code) and thus the Koo Wee Rup Sun telephone number changed from Koo Wee Rup 16 to 971-416 and the Bayles Milk Factory changed from Bayles 201 to 977-201 (5)
The PMG produced an Interim Telephone Directory in 1973 with all the new numbers and these are the entries for Koo Wee Rup and Bayles.
I have written about the history of the telephone service in Koo Wee Rup,
here.
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| Koo Wee Rup - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory |
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| Koo Wee Rup - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory |
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| Koo Wee Rup - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory |
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| Bayles - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory |
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| Bayles - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory |
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