TELEGRAPH LOSSES

Grey River Argus, 28 March 1928, Page 5

TELEGRAPH LOSSES

By British Post Office LONDON, Marell 27. The British Post Office’s losses cl telegrams continues to excite controversy. Germany’s internal telegraph system was also subsidised by the Government to th e extent c+’ £1,500,000 in 1927, though the miiemum charge per message th< re was eighteen pence. Mr. Mitchell Thomson, Postmaster General, '.speaking at Croydon, sail that he was willing to justify the Post Office’s action in the House of Commons, but it should be remembered that taking money values into account, the deficit on telegrams w’as less than before the war. Moreover, it had been going on for a long time, and when the Minister was now setting enquiries afoot after forty years | to see l if the matter could be amended, it was hard to be exposed to abuse.