TELEPHONE LOSSES
FARMERS QUESTION STATEMENT I'roin Our Oicn Correspondent HAMILTON, Friday. I wonder,” queried a member of the executive of the Waikato Farmers’ Union which met in Hamilton today when a letter was received from the Postmaster-General, the - Hon J b Uonald, stating that the rates charged at present charged for the rural telephone service were so low that the department was incurring a substantia 1 loss on that portion of the telephone business Under the circumstances i , regr.'’lieu he was unable to accede in fai ’ mers request for a reduction m the charges. it 77 «’ *£’ Feis - st (Cambridge) said tki - ? tlle , flrst Rme he had heard that this branch was working at a loss Hid all taxpayers know this” He out ll thft d i “-f statemen t and pointed that last year the department made a profit of £500.000 net” They should know* exactly how this profit was made. 1 On Mr. Feisst’s motion, -it was resolved to forward a copy of the departmental reply to Captain H. M House ° l th ' M ' P ” f . or inquiry in the
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 14
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