PHONE TOIL CALLS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1932, Page 3

PHONE TOIL CALLS

SUGGESTION TO DEPARTMENT. '% / September' 19/ . . . //the =■;■ Associated Chambers dTrCornnierce is to be asked t6'dji?cu6S,:wi|h officials of the Tost and y Telegraph Department, the possibility •.«f.;alrnangi«^''f6r ; no charge to be made i . Ipr personal \ long-djstaince • telephone when the person 'wanted is not ■t contacted.■ A> resolution; to this effect • was paeeed by the Auckland Chamber of iGomineroe. '' in the letter to the secretary of the ' ’■ associated tjfenbers, it is to be pointed .odt. that iu. At’otraiia and in'. other overseas[. ‘countries- a telephone subscriber desirous of making a tel] call to a particular individual at a given number ■ca® have’ his call insured, no charge being made by the department if the individual wanted is not <jon"'■typted.a- ft;is .jaleo to be, pointed out 'OTjer long.'di§tunces the risk, of ;sl|wiW<b j ’■ And' '(inconvenience through .fills'- proving ineffective seriously ter Otricts n?e,of the telephone. [ It; w»s !sate<i• that the idea was that J ,Rue 'thlf phono -official® would not. con- ' nect the .subscriber until the individual* person required was - not available no he^mode,/ . ( i