TOILETS TO BE FREE
Decimal Change Unwarranted
With the introduction of decimal currency in 1967 one of the few services that has kept its price unchanged in times of inflation will become free. It will no longer be necessary to spend a penny to use a City Council-owned toilet.
The council was told last evening that because of the change to decimal coinage toilet locks were being removed in railway stations and many other local bodies were discontinuing coin-operated doors.
From men’s conveniences in Christchurch the council collected £4lO last year, from women’s £llO2.
The present locks were in a poor state of repair and not worth converting, the works and services committee- said. The cost of replacing all locks was estimated at £940.
If conveniences were well maintained and supervised they were not subject to disfigurement, the committee said, and as all new suburban toilets were free, the council should adopt a uniform policy for the city.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30933, 14 December 1965, Page 22
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