RURAL PHONE RENTAL
Objection To Reinstating Former Charges — ■ Dominion Special Service. Masterton, March 21. The proposed increase in .rural party telephone rental charges was commented on at a meeting of the Wairarapa provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union to.-day. It was decided to ask the ro.-it-master-Geueral to reconsider his proposal to reinstate the former charges for rural party telephones as from April 1. Air. C. C. Jackson said the department should consider the rural subscribers, and the matter should be taken up throughout the Dominion by the tarmers unions, which represented the majority of rural subscribers. The Dominion executive should take up the question immediately and strongly. , Mr. H. Bennett said that speaking for the Tinui district, 50 per cent, of the subscribers there would withdraw it tne rental were increased. Other members expressed similar views.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 150, 22 March 1938, Page 2
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136RURAL PHONE RENTAL Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 150, 22 March 1938, Page 2
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