TELEPHONE FACILITIES
RECENT EXTENSIONS PROFITABLE TO DEPARTMENT The Post Office has experienced a most encouraging improvement in business through the reducing of telephone toll rates by half all day on Sundays and holidays, and the extending cf attendance from two hours to 12 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 July-December period of 1935), shows an oxcellent public response to the improved facilities. In the Julv-Decemher period of 1935 the calls totalled 259,059, an increase of 52 per cent on the business for the corresponding period of 1934, while the revenue, £11,795, showed an improvement of 34 per cent. Uhe effect of this is that, while during the July-Decem-ber 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, equivalent to £2398 for tho whole year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22476, 21 July 1936, Page 10
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169TELEPHONE FACILITIES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22476, 21 July 1936, Page 10
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