The cost of rural telephone rentals was discussed at a recent meeting of the Southland provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union. Mr. W. H. Ward said that the maintenance charge of £5 a mile a line was exorbitant. The farmers were in a most disadvantageous position compared with urban subscribers because of the high rentals and the small number of subscribers connected with rural exchanges, which caused heavy toll, charges. It was decided to request, a reduction in the maintenance charge.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19468, 29 October 1937, Page 5
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