THAT TELEPHONE EXCHANGE!
WHILE we realise the difficulties of the Post Office in obtaining and training suitable operators for work in the exchange, we cannot but feel that we have: a right to portray the absolute exasperation of users of the phone, who are cut off in the middle of important messages and conversations, who are unable to get disconnected from another subscriber. five and ten minutes after the conversation is finirheu; who are unable to raise exchange at all—sometimes fo: a quarter of an hour; who are called to the phone by mistake and are left to make the discovery; or who having heard muffled enquiries about 'working' from the operate;/, and then though both parties fairly shriek the affirmative, of being promptly cut off without a penny. There -ire others but the above will serve possibly as an illustratic i to our friends the postal authorities of what the averege user endures these 'days.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 25, 6 March 1942, Page 4
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156THAT TELEPHONE EXCHANGE! Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 25, 6 March 1942, Page 4
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