OUR TELEPHONES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 8 March 1923, Page 9

OUR TELEPHONES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Our telephone service, far from i being an ideal one; requires to be reorganised from every point of view PosV • iibly the reason that, we have such a poor service is due to th- fact that the telephone employees are not paid a fair «nd reasonable wage in keeping with sen-ices rendered. As every one must admit the telephone service' demands a -.-,•; good amount of concentration and real ;.;..; bard work and attention at the hands of ..,—, operators. Recently there have' heon ::. two cuts effected in the salaries of the in our exchange. .This, we H hoped, would bring., lower telephone .»«-. rates, or at'least provide ; sufficient'staff -' to cope with the increasing business a - . transacted over the. telephone. However, I 0. instead of this "we find, much to our ,-. displeasure, that the Telegraph' Depart■ p\'- ,™ ent "have doubled our' rates, and BaveiH'-; not even endeavoured to give efficient BBffl ier yice in return. - It appears prima ' : f. facie that they are, going to. squeeze aa. y much outlof the business man as ,pos...or, in othen • wiorde, ' retard ■• the. -efforts of the business community as i .much possible, therefore. I appeal 'to-i;<iS;.-aH ! business men of this! .city o/ganlsq, '■■/.. a deputation witli. ;e;fSrieitj;of prodticing : an efficient.. return for the overburdened- telephone' , feef; V I think ' with"'tVeee facts before us 'it is high .time these matters were in " j>/Testigated, both from the employee's of view and also tie. telepaobe. fff- user, who sometimes feels {Hit if the were paid a fair and "s6sent. ««ge there would be better "servie*' ■J^ta.— I am, etc., F. J. MARTIN. Secretary, Motor Lorfy Assn.