SIR JOSEPH WARD.
DEPUTATIONS AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 4. Sir Joseph Ward, replying to an One 1 hung.i deputation, said that he could not .' e hi> way to reduce the- charge for telephone communication with Auckland. The same difficulty arcse throughout the Dominion, where there were two exchanges within a uhort distance of each other. To ma,kes cuncrsion aL ons place would mean making them for all. -
, Replying to a- request for a reduction of ;the raihvay farew between Onehunga and Auckland from Is second, and Is 6d first-class, while the tram fare ia only nine-pence! return, the Premier eaid he -admitted the ani.maly, and if the Government ■ could lower the Onehunga rates without doing the same at other places, they would bj only too glad to do k>.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13460, 5 December 1907, Page 5
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132SIR JOSEPH WARD. Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13460, 5 December 1907, Page 5
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