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in regard to individual use .and long-distance facilities 

 as exclusive-line subscribers, they would pay on a substan- 

 tially lower scale, and one that, according to the Postmaster- 

 General, will barely suffice to cover outlay and working 

 expenses. 



The secretary of the A. O. S. has communicated with the 

 affiliated trading and other societies, calling attention to the 

 action which has been taken in this matter, pointing to the 

 benefits that would follow from the formation in rural 

 districts of groups of farmers to take advantage of the offer 

 made by the Postmaster-General, and enclosing copies of 

 the Post Office memorandum and circulars giving full 

 details of the scheme. 



Party-lines are being constructed in a number of districts, 

 while negotiations for their installation are well advanced 

 in many other places. It has been further intimated that 

 the district telephone managers of the G.P.O. are to be 

 officially instructed to give all the assistance in their power 

 to societies wishing to take advantage of the scheme, and 

 that the local representatives of the Post Office will, as far 

 as possible, arrange to attend meetings both of the Branch 

 Committees and of affiliated societies at which the question 

 is to be discussed. 



