§ Mr. MACKINDERasked the Postmaster-General, whether the charge of 25s. per annum made to subscribers on the National Telephone service in Glasgow for inter-communication with the Post Office service prior to the transfer of the service to the State is being continued?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELA charge of 5s. per line for inter-communication was
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Mr. BUXTONThe quantity of sugar imported into Canada from the British West Indies and British Guiana in each of the under-mentioned years (extracted from the Canadian Trade Returns) was as follows:—
made where lines rented from the Post Office and the National Telephone Company were terminated on the same switchboard at a subscriber's premises, and this charge is being maintained where any of the lines so connected are rented at obsolete rates which did not cover inter-communication. In such cases the renter benefits considerably from the fact that his payments are below the current tariff, and I propose to defer any change until the 1753W general revision of rates which has been promised. Old subscribers at the current rates, like new subscribers, are entitled to general inter-communication facilities without extra charge.