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THURSDAY JUNE 8, 1922.
TELEPHONE CHARGES.
HON, MR. A. R. LOWE'S QUES. TIONS IN THE COUNCIL.
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make a large increste in their charges, but the Government was not prepar ed to make any concession, except on the condition that the Company would agree to install an up-to-data system on the most modern method.
Terms were discussed and figures At this afternoon's meeting of the Legislative Council the Hon. Mr. were gone into at great length, but it AR. Lows asked the following ques-was. found impossible to arrive at an It may te pointed out that the tions about the recent increase in agreement. The Government finally radis within which the minimium telephone charges:-
sugested a conference with Mr. rate is charged has been considerably 1-In view of the one month's P. H. Cole, General Manager of extended. A subscriber on the out notice given by the China and Japan the Shanghai Mutual Telephone skirts of Victoria for example, who in $154 according as he has a private or a business telephone.
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position to raise new capital required The Government was forced to take and to meet the general increase in action to restrain rents but it was
offence to expenditure which has taken place an
good economic since the present rales were introduc-doctrine and he would be extremely ed. The incidence of the increase glad when the time came that they. hetw en working costs and new could dispense with the legisla capital expenditure cannot be ac tion. If it
to become OST-Brooch, Prawn shaped. enrately estimated
permanent they would have to intro-
studded brilliants ruby eye. duce a Fair Rents Tribunal, which they gold claws. Finder will be soitably had shrunk from doing for obvious rewarded our returning to Pentreath reasons up to the present. Indications and Company, Alexandra Buildings, were that, this law would not be necessary for more than another year
building going in. There was no question that it was rasier to obtain European boases than in 1920.
Telephone & Electric Co., Ltd, to Company and Mr. W. W. Cook 1904 pai: $175, is now to pay $140 or because there was a great deal of P. & 0. S. N. CO..
increses the rales charged to its Consulting Telephone Engineer of subscribers (in the case of business London, as expert advisers to itself lines by 90 per cent.) bave these new and the Company respectively. This charges been sanctioned by the Go-conference was recently held, with Varriment; and, if so, will the Governmost satisfactory results. Mc. ment lay on the table the payers on Cale and Mr. Cook were in which their decision was based
close agreement in many respecta. 2-Will the Government explain and where they differed they gave how much of the proposed increase is full explanations of the grounds upon justified by higher working costs, and which they differed; w.th the how much by rental on heavy rpen- consequence that the Government is diture (in the Company's own words) Dow in a position to come to a ."sbont to be undertaken for the erec-definite decision as to what are fair tion of a new Central Exchange and terms to offer. new Central Battery installation." and The Draft Agrement containing why it should be held justifiable the Government's proposals' has not for subscribers to pay such increased I yet been placed before the Company. rates before the impervements have abere have however been informal been completed or any material ex- penditure incurred?
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S
REPLY.
The Colerial Secret ry replied as
follows
The question of the Telephone Com- pany's rates has been the subject of protracted negotiations between the Company and the Government,
The present agreement runs for 3 period of twenty five years from 1905. Previous to that year the rate was
$100 for the first mile of the distance from the telephone to the exchange and $25 for each additional ha f mile, and under the 1905 agreement the Egures were put into sterling at £10 and £2.10.0, the exchange value of which was at the time bigher than the former dollar rates,
RENTS ORDINANCE,
WARNING TO LANDLORDS,
STEECH BY П.E. THE GOVERNOE.
His Excellency continued "I should like to make it perfectly clear that! although I dislike it, if any attempt is made at the cessation of the law to go back to the system of incresses which
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existed before I shall have no Esita | Through Bill of Lading sued for tion in sinking my personal feelings, and I would further say to a certain class of landlords in this Coloar that it authentic cases are brought before
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with the landlord this Port en or about TUESDAY, 13th The Attorney General moved the better agree second reading of an Ordinance to quickly and pay rent above the June 1922, at noon taking Passengers Silk and Valuables and Tes for Italy, discussions regarding it, and the Com-extend temporarily the provisions of standard, otherwise it would be in and Cargo for the above Parts.
At the meeting of the Legislative me Council this afternoon.
i juny has been permitted to advertise the Bent Ordinances 1921 with certain creased when the law ceased, I shall | Frince and London (under arrangement)
amendments.
The Colonial Secretary seconded. Mr. H. W. Bird said advantage had beer taken of domestic building What happened was that a tenant of a factory or godowa bad only to pat a couple or to watchmez to make it a domestic building. He thought
have no hesitation in getting the law wil be transhipped at Bombay into the into operation or taking other steps Mail Steamer proceeding direct to to get home on these landlords. That Marseilles and Landen.
ment as a warning to certain landlords in the Colony,
The Ball was read a second time
the rates proposed under it va the understanding that the rates will not come into force until the agree ment is signed. The agreement when Bigued will be laid upon the table of this Council. It is not proposed to lay any other papers in view of the confidential nature of much of the information contained in the corres-another proviso should be introduced 2 which is being further considered.
to make this impossible. potdence.
With regard to the latter part of the Honourable Member's question, the Government is advised that a capital of some $3,500,000 would be required to install an entirely new telephone system on modern lines; and, it the
Government's terms
the He
The Hon. Mr. Part. congratulated ordinance for another Fest. the Government on extending
asked that the Government si culd provide areas of building land with cheap ardear meats of access and ofering further inducements to are such that the existing tembuicers to erect hurses and domestic pany cannot see its way to accept the community must con- vemplate a rapidly deteriorating service until 1930, and thereafter rates, to be charged by a Dew as high as
them
at least
Sen-ments.
His Excellency thought that the Ugation of Mr. Bird should go to committee.
Regarding Mr. Parr's remarks His Excellency said that he made it per
The BI went into Committee and
passed with the exception of Clanse
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During the war the exchange of the Company, dollar iose very considerably and the those now proposed. It is consider fectly clear before the Ordinance was Company's receipts in terms of dollarsed necessary to permit the Com-introduced and subsequently, that were seriously diminished. The Company to charge the new rates forth this was a form of legislation be re pany accordingly asked permission to with, in order that it may be in a gardes with great distrust and dielike. and malarial fever at the age of 41.
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