TELEPHONE CHARGES.
REDUCTION ASKED FOR. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Friday. Members of Parliament representing country districts waited on the Fost-master-CieinT.il to-day. The member.? asked that the charge of sixpence for each communication within a 25-mile radius on private lines be reduced to threepence, as on ordinary lines. They also uTged that the maintenance charge of £2 per mile for private lines was excessive. Several speakers lirgted that the cheapening of the telephone system would do a great deal to induce settlement in country districts. The Minister said he was anxious to extend telephone facilities to the baekblocks, but he could not say at present how far he would be able to go in that direction. He did not think the proposed reduction of message charges from sixpence to threepence could pay the department. The whole basis of extending the radius rested on the automatic system, but he could not hold out any hope at present that he would be able to extend it to the baekblocks. He hoped to be able to extend it to the suburbs., but he would go fully into the question.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 77, 17 August 1912, Page 5
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185TELEPHONE CHARGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 77, 17 August 1912, Page 5
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