TELEPHONE CHARGES.

Shannon News, 29 March 1923, Page 4

TELEPHONE CHARGES.

FURTHER PROTEST PROM CANTERBURY.

i. CHRISTCHURCH, 'Last:- Night.' The Canterbury Progress. League t today unanimously adopted the follow, ing’ motion: That the report of the special coihmittee set up by the exe. .* cutive of the League to report on -tele-'? phone charges should - be adopted. and that the Government be* informed' that in the opinion of this League,-the Post and Telegraph Department is not jus. tified at-thfe present time in increasing the already, 'substantially increased felephonle i - charges. "ot_- the -last > two. ■ years, for following-principal "reasons: (1) That it is of vital importance at the. present time that charges of what;' ever kind i throughout the Dominion should not, be unnecessarily increased; (2) that the department has failed to show Ithat the telephone brahcn* is working at a real loss; (3) that ex. * penses should be declining in view of the present reduction in wages ahd iu the, cost of ;..( 4) that-revenue- 4 >. should be expanding with the increase in the number' of subscribers to tele, phone exchanges.;., -