RURAL TELEPHONES.
GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS. (By Telegraph-Special Correspondent.) Stratford, January 26. Proposals to develop telephony in remote districts in New Zealand were referred to by the Prime Minister at Stratford to-night. During last session he had asked Parliament to agree to a preliminary vote of ,£2OOO for the assistance of eettlcrs who desired to erect rural teleS hones. There were many places in tho 'ominion where it was out of the question for the Department to erect cxpen.sive lines, but which could be very well served by settlers associating together and erecting lines with their own material. Wherever associations of settlers were .formed for this purpose the Government would make a grant in aid according to the importance of tho line, and the number of settlers likely to be served by it. * In the meantime lie proposed that the Department's officers should give every I possible assistance in the way of advice in connection with the erection of such lines. Those owners who were willing to subsidise the Department's lines would Also be materially relieved. He proposed ■that the Department should assume half (the risk of loss and that would reduce ithe subsidy required by one half.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 5
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196RURAL TELEPHONES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 5
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