Telephone Kiosks (Apparatus, Thefts)

HC Deb 17 January 1945 vol 407 c191W

Mr. G. White

asked the Postmaster-General the approximate number of instruments which have been stolen from telephone kiosks during the past year and the cost of replacement.

Captain Crookshank

Approximately 10,300 telephone instruments or parts of instruments were stolen from public call offices during 1944 and the cost of replacement was roughly £9,400.