TOLL RATES
POST OFFICE ENTERPRISE. The Post Office has had a very encouraging return for its enterprise in reducing telephone toll rates to half all day on Sundays and holidays, and in extending the attendance from two hours to twelve hours at 112 additional telephone exchanges on those days. A return of calls and revenue for the first' six months of the extended service (26 Sundays in the Julv-Docember period, 1935), shows an excellent public response to the improved facilities. In the J uly-December period of 1935 the eajls totalled 259,059, an increase of 52 per cent on the business for the com spond ng pe:io;l of 1931, while the revenue, £11,795, showed an improvement of 34 per cent. - The reward ot Post Office enterprise has been that, 'while during the J uly-December period of 1934 a restricted telephone service on Sundays and holidays involved a deficit of £632, the extended facilities in 1935 resulted in a surplus of £567, an actual improvement of £1199, which is equivalent to £2398 for the whole year.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1936, Page 3
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