BRITISH POST OFFICE.
ADVISING COMMITTEE’S
SUGGESTED REFORMS
BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT OXDON, March 22. A business committee, in a special report on Post Oci:e administration and the telegraph service as a commercial enterprise with the. wider use o(' machine printing telegraphs, states that savings of from 20 to 30 per cent, on the present costs could he made. ‘ The committee declares that tne present service lacks the resiliency which a progressive business l requires if it is going to meet, competition. The telephones at present were showing a loss of £1,600.000 per annum, which equals more than id for every telegram sent in 1926-1027. Suggested reforms include the removal of the. redundancy of the staff and the high cost of management- and an increase in the rate bn Press messages . The report emphasises that conditions of work in the Civil Service do not encourage efficiency or effort.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 March 1928, Page 5
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