SEPTUAGENARIAN'S SUICIDE.
FARMER FOUND HANGED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NELSON, this day. John Alfred Thompson, aged 73, and married, of Foxhill, farmer, was found hanging this morning. He leaves a grown-up family. lie was suffering from nervous breakdown.
NEW 'PHONE RATES, i LITTLE EFFECT OX SUBSCRIBERS When the telephone rates were Ir creased it wa.3 argued by some sut scribers, who thought the increase e> ceesive, that there would be man "phones relinquished. This argumen was upeet by the Secretary of the Pos Office, Mr. Markman, in an address t the Chamber of Commerce this aftei noon. There had always l>een a nun her of phones surrendered every moivtl i lie said: for example, in Auckland i October, 10-22. the number was 10: yet throughout the whole Dominini with close on 100,000 telephone sul scribers, the excess of phones given v in October last against those applic for was only 390, less than half pc cent.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 267, 8 November 1923, Page 8
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155SEPTUAGENARIAN'S SUICIDE. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 267, 8 November 1923, Page 8
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