Telephone listing defended
The Postmaster-General (Mr Couch) has written a five-page letter to local bodies defending alphabetical listing of telephone directories.
Mr Couch said the computerised type-setting process would cut $300,000 off the cost of each round of directories, It would reduce, Waiting times to get names in directories by about a year, and stop callers searching for the exchange to which the subscriber was connected. It would also reduce the size of directories, Mr Couch said and narow the gap between closing directory rolls and issues, from 15 months to about eight. Directories would be printed every year instead of every 18 months. The directory system had been “tried and proved” by the British Post Office, and adapted to New Zealand’s needs, Mr Couch said. It would replace an outdated and unreliable manual system.
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