The police no in 1950s Melbourne was fj 999

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> On 16 Dec 2017, at 8:18 PM, 'Noel Reed'noelreed10@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> On 16 Dec 2017 15:59, "'gareth martin'gandjmartin101@... [TramsDownUnder]" TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> The Telephone numbers started changing from prefixes to full numbers about 1958.

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> In Australia, the letters associated with the numbers 1 to 0 on telephone dials were –

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> 1=A, 2=B, 3=F, 4=J, 5=L, 6=M, 7=U, 8=W,

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> 9=X, 0=Y.

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> In New Zealand, the numbers on the telephone dials were the reverse of the Australian arrangement. WHY ! !

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> Noel Reed.

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