BRITISH GJP.O.
Criticised By Businessmen's
Committee.
REFORMS RECOMMENDED
LONDON", March 23.
A committee of businessmen has issued a special report on the administration of the British Post Office Telegraph Service as a commercial enterprise, with a wider use of machines for printing telegrams. The report say® savings of from 20 to 33 per cent on the present costs could be made. The committee Bays the present service lacks the resiliency which a progressive business requires if it is to meet competition. The telephones at present are showing a loss of £1,600,000 a year, which equals more than seven pence for every telegram sent in 1026-1927.
Reforms suggested by the committee include the removal of the redundancy of the staff and the high cost of management, and an increase in the rates on Press messages. The report says conditions of work in the Civil Service do not encourage efficiency or effort.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1928, Page 9
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