CONTROL OF TELEGRAPHS
POSTMASTERS TAKE OVER effecting of economies (From Our Resident Re porter. WELLINGT&N, To-day. The control of the telegraph branches of the Post and Telegraph Department is being given into the bands of the chief postmasters in the main centres. This change is being effected in the course of economy. The alteration already has been made at Christchurch and Auckland, aß d in due course similar arrangements will be made in Wellington and Dunedin. Although it is stated that the men on the telegraph side are believed to be opposed to such an administrative change because of their preference for an independent branch, with a superintendent in charge, and because they think that the telegraph, as a separate branch, will be more “or less submerged Iu the new control, the official view is that a loss of £IOO,OOO on the telegraph side last year and £190,000 the previous year, has mado it incumbent to bring about certain economies.
In ail but the four chief centres the chief postmaster has control of the telegraph side. Therefore, the extension of the same principle to the cities involves no radical change in policy.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 322, 5 April 1928, Page 15
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192CONTROL OF TELEGRAPHS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 322, 5 April 1928, Page 15
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