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THE TELEPHONE.

The telephone is one of the; most serviceable institutions we possess in this Dominion. It brings the outlying districts into touch with the towns, and enables business to be transacted with expedition and economy. But the telephone is altogether too expensive, and it is not run on business lines. For instance, no concession is made to a man who has more than one telephonic connection. There is no discrimination—and there should be—between telephones used in business and those used in private houses. Subscribers in a town with 500 connections have to pay the same fee as those in a town with 100 connections. No measures have been taken to popularise the service, and to bring it within the .reach of the small man. Mr Massey has been promising a reform in this Department of State, and we have no doubt that he and his colleague the PoßtmasberGeneral will do something to make the service economical as well as efficient. The Continuous Ministry were always after the shekels. Public convenience, • with thorn, wfiN 'of secondary importance.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 October 1913, Page 4

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THE TELEPHONE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 October 1913, Page 4

THE TELEPHONE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 October 1913, Page 4

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