TELEPHONE CHARGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22004, 10 January 1935, Page 10

TELEPHONE CHARGES

WEEKLY TOLL ACCOUNTS EXPERIMENT IN CENTRES A letter announcing the arrangements made in connection with a suggestion that telephone subscribers should be able to pay their toll accounts weekly has been received from Mr. G. McNamara, Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department, by Mr. A. G. Lunn, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. McNamara said the scheme had been considered previously, but had been rejected owing to the heavy additional cost it would involve. However, the department was prepared to meet individual business firms who desired to receive weekly accounts. An additional charge of £1 a year for the first trunk line and 5s for each succeeding trunk lino would be made, this feo being tho same as that made to subscribers who received their toll accounts daily. Tho charge did not cover the cost of rendering tho accounts daily, or oven weekly, but tho department, in its desire to meet tho business community in every possible way, was prepared to experiment in the four main centres in issuing weekly accounts. Firms in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch or Dunedin may now receive Jtlioir toll accounts weekly on making application to the chief postmaster.