TELEGRAPH COSTS.
BUSINESS COMMITTEE REPORT. (BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLX ASSOCIATION) (Received March 23rd, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 22. A business committee, in a special report on Post Office administration and the telegraph service as a commercial enterprise, with wider use of machine-, printing, telegraphs, states that savings of from 20 to 33 per cent, on present costs could be made. The committee declares that the present sejvice lacks the resiliency which progressive business requires if it is going to meet competition. Telephones at present were showing a loss of £1,600,000 per year, which equals more than sevenpence for every telegram sent in 1926-1927. Suggested reforms include the removal of redundancy of staff' and the high cost of management, and an increase in rates on Press messages. The ~ report emphasises that conditions of work in the civil service do not encourage efficiency or effort..
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19268, 24 March 1928, Page 15
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146TELEGRAPH COSTS. Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19268, 24 March 1928, Page 15
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