REGULATIONS AMENDED
TELEPHONE SERVICES VARIATION OF CHARGES (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Telephone regulations, which were issued to-night, provide that any telephone subscriber shall be liable for any charges payable for inland and overseas toll calls emanating from his telephone, and also for inland and overseas telegrams and radio telegrams telephoned from his home to the telegraph office for transmission.
The Director-General may, if he thinks fit, demand security for any such possible calls.
The additional charge for desk telephones, with hand microphones, is reduced from Cl to 10s. Charges for the removal of telephones to other premises are altered and a charge is to be made for altering records where no change of position of telephone is involved. At exchanges at which- the number of paying subscribers exceeds 200, but not 1000, the period of attendance shall be continuous, provided not less than twothirds of the residential subscribers express their desire that attendance at the exchange should he so extended. Alterations in the charges are also made in other cases.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 9
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