COST OP TELEPHONES.
TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY. [BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON. Friday. ' The needs of country settlers in the matter of telephone communication were emphasised by members in the House today, when discussing the Post and Telegraph Estimates. It was suggested in many quarters that the disparity between the town and country services, should be removed, so that the country subscriber with his limited service would no longer he called upon to pay more than the city, user with thousands of telephones at his disposal. The Hon. J. G. Coates, PostmasterGeneral, said the -whole aim of his department was to reduce the cost of the service to the public, and he was now going into the question of costs and charges. The present charges no doubt favoured the city man. It did not seem fair that the man with, say, 1000 telephones at call should pay more than the man with 6000 or 7000 at his disposal. A readjustment could be made, but lie did not propose to do that at present. Ho mentioned that the department wa« spending bomething like £600,000 this year on improvements to the telephone service, the largest expenditure pi the kind for many yean.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18197, 16 September 1922, Page 10
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