THE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 261, 31 July 1919, Page 6

THE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

Sir,—One clause in the contract bf> tween every telephone subscriber (and all temporary users also) and the Telephone Department binds the Department to issue to 'phono users a complete and up-to-date list of all subscribers, at least every six months. Without this list the service is largely valueless; in fact, the absence of this list has, within the past week only, caused considerable financial loss and trouble to several subscribers whom I know. The telephone list was due to subscribers over a month ago, but no advice can be received when, and if it will be issued. Last year's war- in Europe can hardly be made an often as that time-worn event was made to serve. Our public servants continue to agitate for higner pay, yet in this and so many other cases, they are now giving inferior services, a kind of Departmental "go slow" \policy. I have previously found that your publicity has remedied various delays in Government Departments, and I believe that you can thus help the seven thousand or more telephone subscribers in Wellington, to say nothing of the tens of thousands elsewhere in New Zealand.—l am, etc., H. H. THOMPSON.