TELEPHONE EXCHANGE DILATORINESS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 10

TELEPHONE EXCHANGE DILATORINESS.

';• ■-; ■.-■;.': 2732, PLEASE.;: ■;.! '; : ; . Sir,—lt is; not? often that; I trouble.'.. you. (like ebrno. corresponden-ts .whos© ! names in, inoroy! I suppress) i but I feel constrained, to, voice b. protest v against the 'unconscionabletime that tiie "gals" at the Telephone Exchange, often keep subscribers waiting '■ till'' their: sweet ."What numberP" i;each<ss' the, ■ear at thQ'ptiher.eiid of the wire. One'rings' and: rings' and I rings; and''at.last in sheer d*speration'' possibly swea—or,.' that is, possibly sends the message'per the office, youth) .instead !of: waiting! any longer. I! do! not! wish 'to be classed;.with;that' species of individual Awhich. is' always praising its; wee small voice inigony at some fancied trouble (for, as. I have stated, I'seldom trouble the editor, in .'that way), but if .the demoiselles at-, tondingat the-Telephone Exchange aro overif there.-bo hot,enough of them,; then the staff should be augmented with somo of oiir .unemployed,' for!> Mr., Editor, onohastd. wait a very, very long .time sometimes to get, hold of a number, as you will know. ;: You ririg,'. and you wait, and. you ring— .< But the readei'-Vill-'kriow- how the tiling goes;--Unless the Government .want's!'us all .to.tui'ii-.SocialistS'or .'Single-taxors, or so-methirig'-terriblo like .that,--it liad better. itn- : prove the service; otherwise mere,flesh - arid blood will find itself unable to stand tho, strain..-The worst, , feature of the thing is that.after a man has been kept.waiting lialf m hour',for am answer,,by. tho exchango,-. he can't-rthe other end being a lady—let hia of-. forvesceiice take thp form of a cuss, 'for ■'- -It. would be.de trop: However, having had riiy say, I will ring off. Ting-a-ling-ling,—l am, etc., ■ -.: ■ , -.':■''■.■:■ '■■;:■■• '" ' ';■ ■•■■ :•-'■". .-:'• ■-'. ■' .-•.";■ " ■■■" : -.".''..""-; ■ WIRE IN. -y ; .Wellington, July ; l4,; 1909.\; , :. ; ,';.