300 FEWER TELEPHONES
COMPLAINT REGARDING COST.
REPLY FROM THE DEPARTMENT.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Wellington, Aug.- 21.
Referring to the statement made at a meeting'of the Wellington Retail. Tiaders’ Association that while several thousand subscribers had discontinued the telephone the Government had shown stubborn resistance’ to the request for reduced rates, an official of the Post and Telegraph Department replies that for the last quarter for which returns were available .there were only 300 fewer telephones in use in the whole of the Dominion than for the prec:Jin o quarter. There had been a large number of relinquishments, but there had also been a surprisingly large number of new connections.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1931, Page 11
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