§ 51. Mr. RHYSasked the Postmaster-General the principle upon which some telephone kiosks in rural areas are erected without guarantees being required?
§ Sir E. BENNETTThe present practice is to provide one kiosk without guarantee in association with each rural automatic exchange. Otherwise a kiosk is not provided without guarantee in replacement of an open telephone call office in a rural area unless the estimated annual receipts will suffice to cover the full annual costs of the kiosk.
§ Mr. RHYSCan the hon. Gentleman say whether the Department does in fact put up kiosks in other neighbourhoods without a guarantee?
§ Sir E. BENNETTThere are exceptional cases in which, I am sorry to say, we make mistakes. We over-estimated the amount that was going to be received from a kiosk in two cases, but in those cases we have faced up to the fact and borne the loss. The two villages are Christmas Pie and Send Village.