BUSINESS TELEPHONE LISTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1613, 3 December 1912, Page 4

BUSINESS TELEPHONE LISTS.

ME THEY POSSIBLE? Apparently the Chamber of Commerce is desirous that business men, who are subscribers to the telephone, should be classified on the list according to their businesses. On. the suggestion made at the last meeting of the Chamber it wae decided to write to the Secretary of the Post and Telegraph DeDartment, pointing out that this had "been done some years ago. The following reply was rer ceived from the Secretary:— 'In reply to your letter requesting that a list of telephone exchange subscribers classified under trades and businesses be added to the Wellington telephone directory, I have the honour to inform you that it is regretted that the request cannot be acceded to. The,,,eichange_,list is published, not as a trades'directorr, bat as an alphabetical list of subscribers. The * increased cost of production of the proposed list would be too great unless the ertra entries were paid. for., at the relation rate of 10s. each. Many businesses are of a varied nature and hard to classify, and this would lead to constant friction with, subscribers.' . The list whioh you Tβfer to, issued some years ago, formed part of a private advertising scheme." When the matter came np at yestep< day's meeting of the Chamber Mr. Leighw Hunt said that the reply was not verr satisfactory. That there was not euoh a list in' the directory showed a lack of enterprise on the part of the Department as it- had been a great convenience to the public. Surely if a private advertising firm could do it the Department could. The proposal to charge 10s. per line was ridiculous. He did not see that they could go any further with the. matter.