TELEPHONE RENTALS
TEMPORARY REDUCTION NOT TO BE PERMANENT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON", this day. The Postmaster-General was asked by Mr. G. 11. O. Wilson (Lab. Rangitiki) in the House of Representatives whether ho will consider making permanent the present temporary reductions in rentals.of telephone subscribers in back country districts, and allow new subscribers to come on at reduced rates in order to improve the position and communication of these act I lers.
Tho Hon. F. .Tones replied, in a written answer yesterday, that the reductions which were granted as a temporary expedient during the depth of tho depression, could not be made permanent; without effecting a reduction in telephone rentals generally. Any general reduction would, however, bring about a loss on tho telephone service as a whole. Although it was . ossilde to extend tho concession, mnv subscribers in rural districts may for the time being join up to existing party lines, from which tAero have been relinquishments, at the rates payable Avhcu the number ( >f connections on the lines was at its highest.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19134, 1 October 1936, Page 12
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