Council Assurance Given Outside Residents The Shanghai Municipst Couneit has endorsed the decision of the Public Utilities Committee that, while the temporary agreement between the Shanghai Telephone Ca. and the Chinese Authorities in regard to the telephone service in the Northern Outside Roads Area constitutes the best possible terms that could be obtained in the interests of subscribers, an assurance should be given the Japanese Residents' Corportation that both the Council and the Company are fully slive to the desirability of a permanent and satis~ factory agreement being reached and that the Company's efforts to this fend will receive the Council's full support, 'The question of charges to telephone subscribers in the Northern Outside Roads Area came before the Public. Utilities Committee _in form of a protest from the Shanghai Japanese" Residents' Corporation against the additional fees charged subscribers residing. in that area Mr, A. P. Stoner Who left for England on Monday The Secretary to the Council stated ina memorandum that the temporary "agreement between the Shanghai Telephone Company and the Chinese Government Telephone Administration was entered into April, 1983. At that time the ques tion of the charges payable by subsetibers In the Outside Roads Area was very" fully considered by the Council, Tt proved Impossible to obtain more favourable terms, but It wed that for a period not exceeding one year the extra charges payable to the Chinese Telephone Administration should be paid by the Shanghai Telephone Ca. "in respect fof then. existing subscribers who Were SM.C. Special Ratepayers, The agreement of April, 1983, which it waa Intended to replace by a per= manent agreement, was terminable notice in. writing Aeseribed as a temporary
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