TELEPHONE RATES
DECREASE UNLIKELY. INTER-ISLAND COMMUNICATION. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, Maj 7 5. Mr G. McNamara, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, informed an inquirer that there is not a hope of a decrease on the telephone rate to subscribers at present and that while the telephone department had been making profits the position at present was too insecure to permit anj 7 revision of the charges. New Zealand had the second cheapest telephone system in the world, Canada, having the cheapest. The linking up of the North and South Islands was expected to be completed in about two weeks.
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Southland Times, Issue 20171, 6 May 1927, Page 7
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102TELEPHONE RATES Southland Times, Issue 20171, 6 May 1927, Page 7
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