On 15 Oct 2000, Chris K. Young wrote:
> Quoted from Peter Samuel:
> > - 911 is the emergency number in North America, while it is 000 in
> > Oz, 999 in NZ and UK etc.
>
> 999 in New Zealand? Not unless you use pulse dialling! :-) (Hint: most
> phones in New Zealand do tone dialling. And rotary phones in New Zealand
> are labelled backwards to what I've seen in other places.)
That's what confused me! I've not been in NZ since 1980 and I remember
that their emergency number was the hardest to dial on a rotary phone
(like Australia's 000), I'd forgotten that their rotary phones were
backwards, hence 111 is the hardest number to dial. (Or close to it).
>
> A New Zealand station (channel 2, I think) used to screen ``Rescue 911''
> (that American programme) on TV, and some kids actually dialled 911 in
> an emergency. :-( So since then, channel 2 had another series, ``Rescue
> 111''.
Similar problems in Oz.
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Regards
Peter
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