TELEPHONE TOLL KATES
many people, separated by New Zealand from their mh and kin, the fact that they are the reinstatement# of garter toll rates after 10 p.m. is a £ av y burden. If the imposition of p half rate between .10 p.m. and L a ; n ?’ J vere repealed it would give relief to people sep«atea by hundreds of miles from nA- ers °* tbeir family, thus shoulfcjjhj a tax out of proportion to borne fe y subscribers more fortuJ i’ours etc Ced SS regards distance--.UNEVENLY HANDICAPPED. September 2, 1948. ? ost and Telegraph Depart*‘K is not proposed to rejJA , a Quarter-rate toll service be--10 *P- m - and 6 a.m. This dewas made in 1947, when the 75 SUon restoring pre-war charges _, a _ conditions was considered. In t.-.ZL Of j G substantial increase in i th* 311(1 salaries, and the steep rise we cost of equipment generally, it , Practicable to do anything in large'”] re^ existing rates and
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25608, 24 September 1948, Page 11
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