TELEGRAPH CHARGES
NO BUSINESS CRITICISM
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, May 30. Questioned concerning the promise given to chambers of commerce that the present scale of telegraph charges would be reviewed after it had been in operation for a few months, the Postmaster-General (the Hon. Adam Hamilton) said that chambers throughout New Zealand had been written to within the" past few weeks for their opinion, but strangely enough not one reply had been received. It was considered, therefore, that the amended scale was giving satisfaction.
"I do not see that business men can take any exception to it," he said, "because it is run on strictly business lines. With charges varying from 6d to Is 3d, according to the distance the message has to be sent, the customer is paying for service rendered more strictly than he was under the flat-rate system."
Mr. Hamilton stated that the practice of enabling telegrams to be telephoned part of the distance had been appreciated throughout the country. He declined to say whether the system of graduated charges was likely to remain permanently in force, although the. revenue had been much the same as that received under the flat-rate system.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 127, 31 May 1935, Page 13
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