THE TIME SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 8

THE TIME SERVICE

(To the Editor.) J-.ii,"lii a icr.-cnt ih.-.ru; of your paper l.h<: «rii..:i- uMwl v.itl, ainaz/.-nienl the iii--1"-iit.inn r,i th<: Government to discontinue I hiil, ino.-t necessary and appreciated servii.-': 'il ",'i!)fi," the lime telephone nurn-l>'-r. In hy K (,w. days the exchange girls ii-fpuii'icrl com t'.-oiikly ami promptly to llir: iiiiinci-uiiß inquiries for "time." The evident, ncrerhhy for suel, service was.i':----'.-ngni.sc.-d at the time of change-over to tlin automatic t-yslrm, by the substitution of a special "time" number, which il. if! now proponed to abolish a« a luxury. Surely, telephone subscribers are entitM to a flight degree of service, in addition to the actual use of an instrument, in return for (heir annual fees/! To many j suburban residents, neither within hear- j ing of tin: town clock, nor possessing wireless ?<-ts, this service supplies indc-'l a daily need. May the writer suggest that should the Department in the cause of economy find it absolutely necessary to discontinue the "time" number, at least some compromise may be' arrived at whereby "information" or some other departmental number would supply "time" to the many genuine inquirers.—[ am, etc., DISTANT DWELLER. I