TELEPHONE BOX AT KAINGA

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 3

TELEPHONE BOX AT KAINGA

Sir, —It is about time that a telephone box was at Kainga for public use. True, we have a telephone bureau here, but anyone wanting to use it has to wait until the one in charge finishes her morning tea at a friend’s place, sometimes over half an hour. I understand that the Chief Postmaster in Christchurch says that the department is not compelled to deliver telegrams, so why not do away with these parasites and have a box which would be private. I notice that the hours of attendance have been cut down to 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. I wonder if the pay has also been cut to correspond with the labour used. I am speaking for a large percentage of the residents in saying that a private telephone box is urgently needed here. —Yours, etc., ADVANCE KAINGA. Kainga, April 7, 1953. [“The reduction in hours of attendance was the result of a reduction in the amount of business offering, and was the alternative to accepting the resignation of the telephonist and closing the office,” said the Chief Postmaster (Mr H. R. Pool) when this letter was referred to him. “The telephonist’s salary is being suitably adjusted. A multi-coin machine is being erected at Stewarts Gully, reasonably handy to Kainga.”]