TELEPHONES WANTED
SOME FARMERS DESPERATE
FLAT RATE ASKED FOR “That the New Zealand Farmers’ Union urge the desperate necessity for telephonic communication in Hikuai district and other outback areas without undue linancial strain upon the settlei's concerned.”
This remit was forwarded from Hiltuai Branch of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union (Auckland Province) to last Provincial Executive meeting together with a further suggestion that the installation of telephones in rural districts should he based upon a flat rate.
Supporting the remit Mr S. fE. Hall said there were many farmers who were right off the beaten track and. l'or lack of telephonic communication lived in dangerous isolation. Mr A. McGonaughy said it was n crime to put a man with a family on a farm where there was no chance of. a telephone being installed. The remit was approved l'or submission to the Dominion Executive.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 41, 5 February 1946, Page 6
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143TELEPHONES WANTED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 41, 5 February 1946, Page 6
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