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The centenary record, via the Free State study, dates a telephone exchange to 1921: 13 subscribers and one public phone. The same year the Aberdeen Wool Growers’ Association was formed to improve Merino breeding and wool classing. Wool, not a mine, carried the district. Source: UFS CDS Research Report 2006(3), citing Aberdeen Municipality 1955 and Westby-Nunn 2004 https://www.ufs.ac.za/docs/librariesprovider23/centre-for-development-support-documents/all-documents/led---research-report-2006(3)-83-eng.pdf