TELEGRAPH COSTS
BUSINESS COMMITTEE REPORT. (Pt/ Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, March 22. A business committee, in a . special report oil Post Office administration and the telegraph service as a commercial enterprise, with wider use of ma-ehine-printih»; telegraphs, states that savings of from 20 to 33 per cent, on present costs could be made. The committee declares that the present sendee lacks the resiliency which progressive; business requires if it is going to meet- competition. Telephones at present were showing a loss of £1,600,000 per year, which equals more than seven-pence for every telegram sent in 1920-27. Suggested reforms include the removal of redundancy of staff and the high cost of management, and an increase in rates on Press messages. The report emphasises that conditions of. work in the Civil Service do not en.courage efficiency or effort.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 140, 24 March 1928, Page 8
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