TELEPHONE CHARGES
Time is ripe for a reduction in telephone charges. This is the opinion of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. H is pointed out that when increased rental charges for telephones were levied, they were, challenged as being undnly high, 'flis Department maintained they were necessary if the telephone branch was to lie self-supporting, and an assurance w:ft given ihiit th? rates would be. Jnnked into-if any undue surplus resulted. The. published ivvonue figures foi-Mrphouos .show aiipreo.inl.l,. j.hto.lso over the p,vvimis Si-ar, and rcprcsi'iiL-itions bavo been made llii-un^li the Associated (,'liambfiy In iln- tiovri-niiißnt KLin-^esi-irsg a reduction in accordnnec wiiirthe assurance given. Tliere are 40C0 applicants awaiting- connection. (Since the termination of the war the expansion of the telephone exchange system throughout the Dominion has been phenomenal: and. if (he present rate of development is maintained it is not unlikely that, in the near future, the immhe.r of telephonos for radi hundred of population will 1,0 -route in.New Zealand than in any i)(Ji«r irouni.rv in tin: norld, rxi-npl thr. Uuilvd tjtut.es of America uud Oau- ' - " - '■■:■-.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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179TELEPHONE CHARGES Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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