STAND TELEPHONES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2942, 30 November 1916, Page 6

STAND TELEPHONES

'- * A WARNING'TO THE DRIVEES. A recommendation of the By-laws ■ Committee, which came before the City Council last evening, read as follows: "That representatives of this Tommi Hee have conferred with the Post and Telegraph Department pfficials in connection with the public stand telephones in consequence of complaints as to the use of these instruments by unauthorised persons. The committee's representatives have reported as follow: (1) That the Post and Telegraph Department adopts the committee's interpretation of the agreement for the use of public stand telephones. (2) That the Department is dissatisfied with the manner in which the telephones are used by the general public. (3) The Department threaten to discontinue the present system and adopt the toll svstom or charge larger annual fees. (A) That they have the City Engineer to use all expedition possible to hare cabinets for those stand telephones not provided with houses at present, and all cabin doors shall have swings fitted, small bells erected outside and the word 'private' painted .on each enoinct. "The r.hmmitteo have to recommend that a circular letter bo forwarded to each licensed driven using _ public ■stands, conveying the information outlined above, with the nbiecfc of having the complaints rectified." Councillor W. H.'P. Barber said thnt nriijinallv a key ivs given to each driver, but thev bad been lost or were missing. He wished to warn the drivers that if they allowed tho public to use the, telephones they ran the risk of having tho t«lepbonfis cut off. or of havinn- a toll svsteni established in lie" of tho existing one. , The recommendation was adopted.