COUNTRY TELEPHONES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 718, 18 July 1929, Page 7

COUNTRY TELEPHONES

KAIKOHE CENTRALISATION BALLOT OF SUBSCRIBERS | (TIIE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter) PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Wed. The question of the Ivaikohe telephone system and its centralisation was brought up in the House of Representatives today when Mr. 11. Rush worth (Bay of Islands) asked the Rost mas ter-General why ballot papers bad been issued in the district on the subject without any reference to the proposal put forward by subscribers and could the papers be recalled? The Postmaster-General, the Hon. ; J. B. Donald, replied that ballot papers i had been prepared for telephone subj scribers at Ivawakawa, Oliaeawyi, j Kaikohe and Okaihau, setting out three | different proposals. They set out 1 proposals applicable to the foyr j centres concerned in the schemes, j Voting was being taken with a view : to ascertaining the wishes of the tele- ■ phone subscribers. : r Phe original proposals did not in- ■ elude Kawakawa in the scheme but, I from representations made, subscribj ors at that place, if possible, must be j provided for. j It was considered that no good purI pose would be served by the recalling ‘of the ballot papers. The Minister gave an assurance, however, that no decision in the matter would bo come to until the wishes of the majority of the subscribers had been ascertained.