TELEPHONE SERVICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2170, 31 August 1920, Page 2

TELEPHONE SERVICE.

AMENDED CHANGES. The lion. J. 0. Coatts, Postmas-ter-General promised in Hie House of Representatives recently to reconsider the question of Jhe propused new telephone rules, and as a result (lie following further amendments in Ihe scale of telephone charges, which takes effect on and' From to-morrow, were announced yesterday. The- rates for the firs I mile in the case of both business and private residence connections will remain unaltered, but thereafter a reduction of 25,; Cd will be made for each quarter-mile or ffaction thereof. At the four principal exchanges, viz., Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, the minimum rate for business subscribers will be £9 10s per annum for the first mile or fraction thereof. A few example-- of the effect: of the reduction are as follow: —Private residence subscribers distant three miles from the exchange now charged £l2 per annum will be required to pay only £ll, Those distant five miles get a reduction of £2 per annum. A business subscriber whose premises are distant three miles from the exchange will gel a reduction of £1 per annum, and so on. The distance over which halfrate connections may be made, namely 25. miles, which was in force prior to the recent amendment, has been reverted to,