TOLL COMMUNICATIONS

Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 61

TOLL COMMUNICATIONS

REVISED RATES AND CHARGES. The Telegraph Department notifies that the new schedule of toll charges operating from February 1, embodying certain concessions, is as follows : From 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., up to three minutes: For distances up to 20 miles 4d For every additional 5 miles or fraction thereof up to 100 miles Id For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof exceeding 100 miles 2d From 9 p.m. to midnight, and from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m , at exchanges which are open at any time between these hours, up to three minutes:— .V~ For distances up to 40 miles 4d For every additional 5 miles or fraction thereof up fo 100 miles id For every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof exceeding 100 miles Id From midnight to 6 a.m., up to six minutes: For distances up to 40 miles 4d For every additional 5 miles or fraction thereof up to ICO miles id For every additional TO miles or fraction thereof exceeding 100 miles Id Attention is drawn to the following con-cessions:—Half-rate concessions commence—(a) At 9 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. as , formerly. (b) Between midnight and 6 a.m. a. turther concession is made by increasing the minimum chargeable time of each conversation from three to six minutes. (c) The minimum charge for a toll call under 20 miles, r.ovv applicable to subscribers and non-subscribers alike, has been reduced from 6d to 4d, replacing the previous concession applicable to subscribers only of a 3d rate for calls up to 25 miles, (d) A more equitable system, of computing the chargeable distances has been introduced by reducing the steps from 25 miles to five miles under 100-mile distances, and from 50 miles to 10-mile steps over the 100-mile distances. The advantage to subscribers generally will be found under distances immediateh above the 50-mile steps. Thus a call to a station I£>9 miles distant will be charged as 110, as against 150 under the old system, the actual cost being Is lOd, as compared with 2s 3d.