TELEPHONE RATES.
DEPUTATION TO MINISTER, INCREASE NOT JUSTIFIED. (Peb United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. November 5. A deputation from the Canterbury Progress League interviewed the Hon. J. G. Coates and urged that there was no necessity to increase telephone rates, as the department’s estimate of the deficiency was based on peak prices; that the automatic exchanges would progressively decrease the operating costs; that depreciation had been made good by renewals and repairs; and that the amount of £268,755 for the year ended March, 1922, and £294,574 for the year ended 1923, representing revenue from toll communications, had not been credited to telephones. Tlie Minister gave a non-committal reply, in the course of which he said the reduction in postage was costing £500,000. However, if the telephones showed a surplus at the end of 12 months he would hand it back in the shape of reductions.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19011, 6 November 1923, Page 7
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