The Archive · 1935

Figures of Fact and Speed

TELEPHONE RATES

To the Editor of the "Nowru-Cutva Dany News"

Si—Your article on the telephone tariff leaves enough unsaid to make the users of business telephones think. T have worked out the probable cost lof the several lines in my office and, from the figures given and guessed fat, find that the new system of charg-ting will cost me 13. per cent. (seventy-three per cent) more than the present one.

I shall probably be told that the Telephone Company is not permitted to earn more than 10 per cent. Every expert accountant knows that this is more or less a figure of speech.

Shanghai, Feb. 21.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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