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Complaint About High Phone Charges. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 20. The Wellington Retail Traders’ Association was formed at a well-attended meeting. The aim of the new body is to find means of reducing overhead charges and bettering retailers’ conditions. It was stated that Wellington retailers were charged startling rates for electricity, and it was resolved to seek reductions. Complaint was also made regarding telephone rentals. It was stated that there were several thousand subscribers who had discontinued the telephone, but the Government had shown a stubborn resistance to requests for reduced rates.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1931, Page 3
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