TELEPHONE HOURS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18216, 29 October 1924, Page 11

TELEPHONE HOURS.

TO THE XDITOB 0? "THE TRESS." Siv, —As many of our holdiays are being held on a Monday, and country .telephone exchanges, in many cases, aro closed from Saturday evening until Tuesday mornings, could it not be so arranged that these telephone exchanges be'opened for at least'one hour morning <uk[ evening on the holiday, and thus put a. break in this long closure of «i necessarv service? It. is not long.since all telet>bono fees were but there iv;:s no corresponding improvement in service. no{» wishing to encroach on the holidays of those employed, it must not be forgotten that most exchange* ■workers only work seven hours a day, and surely thoy would not object to taking this little extra duty in turn? Country subscribers, who are most affected, have no mail service in the days tho telephono is shut, which makes the need tor opening tho exchange «J1 the more necessary. When Sir Heaton Rhodes was Postmaster-General h© promised to look into this matter, but so far we are paying and waiting, and the need for the service suggested is daily becoming greater.—Yours, etc., FAT LAMB.