GHANA: COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSIONER OPENS NEW POST OFFICE IN ACCRA

Record ID: 230310

  • Title: GHANA: COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSIONER OPENS NEW POST OFFICE IN ACCRA
  • Date: 28th February 1968
  • Summary: 1. GV POST OFFICE BUILDING 0.06 2. SV STAFF INTRODUCED TO NANA POKU (2 SHOTS) 0.19 3. GV BUILDING 0.20 4. SV NANA POKU AND OTHERS WALK TO COUNTER 0.28 5. SV GIRL AT STAMP COUNTER SIGN (2 SHOTS) 0.32 6. SV PEOPLE BUY STAMPS (3 SHOTS) 0.43 7. GV EXT..BUILDING 0.46 8. SV NANA POKU LOOKS AT SORTING EQUIPMENT (2 SHOTS) 0.59 9. SV ELECTRONIC MAP 1.00 10. SV TELEPHONE OPERATORS BY NANA POKU (3 SHOTS) 1.13 11. SV NANA POKU ON TELEPHONE 1.21 12. CU EQUIPMENT 1.23 13. SV MR BROWN EXPLAINS EQUIPMENT 1.26 14. GV EQUIPMENT 1.31 15. GV EXTERIOR 1.32 16. CU TALKING CLOCK 1.37 17. SV CLOCK CONTROL EQUIPMENT (3 SHOTS) 1.56 18. SV NANA POKU USES TELEPHONE BOOTH (3 SHOTS) 2.04 19. GV EXT..POST OFFICE 2.08 20. SV MAN SORTS THROUGH SHEETS OF STAMPS (3 SHOTS) 2.14 21. SV ENQUIRY DEPARTMENT, SIGN (3 SHOTS) 2.22 Initials DHC/VS/RM/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th March 1968 13:00
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  • Location: ACCRA, GHANA
  • Country: Ghana
  • Reuters ID: LVAC78KT94GLYTY99EV32XM8D7JY
  • Story Text: THE GHANAIAN COMMISSIONER FOR COMMUNICATIONS, NANA MATHIEW POKU, THIS WEEK DECLARED THE NEW ACCRA POST OFFICE OPEN, WHEN HE BOUGHT THE FIRST STAMP OVER THE COUNTER. THE POST OFFICE IS EQUIPPED WITH EVERY MODERN FACILITY, AND WILL EASE MUCH OF THE COMMUNICATIONS LOAD ON THE CITY'S MAIN POST OFFICE.

    NANA POKU WAS INTRODUCED TI SENIOR STAFF AT THE POST OFFICE BY GHANA'S DIRECTOR OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, MR KORAN, WHO WAS ALSO TAKING PART IN THE OPENING CEREMONY. LATER MR KORAN CONDUCTED THE COMMISSIONER OVER THE POST OFFICE. AT THE GENERAL COUNTER NANA POKU BROUGHT SOME STAMPS, AND IN THE CANCELLING ROOM HE WAS ABLE TO SEE THEM SORTED AND CANCELLED AUTOMATICALLY.

    THE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE PLANT IS ALSO COMPLETELY AUTOMATIC. MR BROWN, SENIOR OFFICER IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTION, EXPLAINED THE FUNCTIONS OF THE EQUIPMENT TO THE COMMISSIONER.

    THE NEW EXCHANGE HAS TELEPHONE FACILITIES FOR OVER 8,000 SUBSCRIBERS, AND CALLS CAN BE MADE TO ANY PART OF THE COUNTRY WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE MAIN EXCHANGE AT THE ACCRA POST OFFICE.
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