TELEPHONE CHARGES.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 22, 30 August 1882, Page 2

TELEPHONE CHARGES.

We pubjlisli the following order in Council for the information, of ■pui; I rea3efe^ and ;. especially for those who arc resident in Awa Huri, aud who propose having i .telephone . communication established with. Feilding :— -"In pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested iii him by i "iTlie Electric Telegraph Act, 1875/Vajid.'; "•The Electric Telegraph Act ' 1875 Amendment Act, 1881," and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, HiF] Excellency the Administrator of the.! Gf> remiSen i of the *tio\os' i ofisi&%e£i land. doth, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said, cblony, malce the regulations 'contained' iti the schedule hereto in relation to the charges to be made for the use of teles" phones wherever established in this j colony, and doth further order a|d|de.cliare that suclf SregulktWs*- sWll t|ike effect on and after the date of the gazetting hereof. — Schedule : A$ jfeejof | £]L 7 10s per annum, payable quarterly in ; advance, shall be payable f OEy>Lu?&>-££-rj. eich first set of instruments and ; wire-■friora-office or- private residence for any distance within half a mile of the telegraph office. .When, tfigrei-thaii; obe ia= 'stpiiment is hired by • the same .firm or ' person, the charge shall be £15 for every instrument after the first for the above distance. An additional ;fpe/of ,£2 iQp; every additional quarter or. portion of a quarter of a mile shall be payable upon , eajch set of instruments". We trust that the proiect will not be allowed to fall to thje grbjtnd, asiW h&\% eve^'|confi"de|pce ; inithe a-bility^ef thcArti-a iWrr-settferl to • jhalce such a line pay expenses at least. We would suggest that a meeiing.be iieldi arid the.' subject freely ventilated, when _we have no doubt satisfactory resolutionswiuld be passed, and the necessary pre.liniinary steps taken to this end. . .