TELEPHONE CHARGES
A CANTERBURY PROTEST BY TELEGRAPH.-,-TRESS ASSOCIATION. Christchurch, March 23. The Canterbury Progress League today unanimously adopted tho following motion:—“That tho report of the special committee sot up by the executive of the league to report on telephone charges should be adopted, and that,tho Government be informed that in the opinion of this league the Post and Telegraph Department is not justified at the present time in increasing the already substantially increased telephone charges of the last two years, for tho following principal reasons: —(1) That it is of vital iinportanco at present that charges or whatever kind throughout the Dominoion should not be unnecessarily increased ; (2) that the Department has failed! to show, that tho telephone branch is working at a real loss; (3) that expenses should bo declining in view of the present reduction in wages and in the cost of materials; (4) that revenue should bo expanding with the increase in the number of subscribers to telephone exchanges.”
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 165, 31 March 1923, Page 4
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162TELEPHONE CHARGES Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 165, 31 March 1923, Page 4
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