TELEPHONE CHARGES.
DOMINION RENTALS LOWEST IN THE WORLD. (phess association teleorau.) WELLINGTON, July 13. "New Zealand has the lowest telephone charges in the world," said Mr G. McNamara, secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department, in a letter leceived by the New Zealand Farmers' Union Conference last night. Not only were the charges cheaper in New Zealand, added Mr McNamara, but the Dominion was the third country in the world for density of telephones, being only exceeded by Canada and the United States. By act of parliament, the Post and Telegraph Department was compelled to pay its profits into the Consolidated Fund, and last year it had to hand ever £20,000. To make a reduction in telephone charges of 15 per cent, would mean a loss of £274,000. The department lost on all rural telephones erected, but the loss was made up in the cities.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 7
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