OUR TELEPHONE SERVICE
THE recent letter to Mr W. Sullivan, M.P., regarding the projected overhaul of the district telephonic service, serves to indicate just how far behind par this district is in this connection. For many years now the service has been totally inadequate to cope with the growing strain imposed by the steadily increasing population. The whole position is aggravated again by the inability of the Postal authorities to find sufficient staff to fulfil the exacting tasks and duties on the exchange and the net result is a desperate position in the Post Office and a highly dissatisfied public forced to put up with a deteriorating.factor for which there has been no sympathetic reduction in charges. All this and more furnishes added weight to the argument for the projected new Post Office first promised ten years ago, to replace the ridiculous building and equipment installed in 1911 for a population of nine hundred.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 25, 7 May 1947, Page 4
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154OUR TELEPHONE SERVICE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 25, 7 May 1947, Page 4
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