TELEPHONE MANNERS.
TO BE CORRECTED BY GRAMO- ""'";' PHONE. Exasperated., telephone subscribers ■who, unable to "get through" as quickly as they would like, indulge in .harsh language towards the' girl,- clerks have been cleverly brought to book by the. telephone administration in Copenhagen.. ."■.. . ■:':■'... : . At first it was found difficult to identify the offenders, so a gramophone apparatus was installed at the Central Exchange. The moment a subscriber began to use unseemly, language, the girl would have it recorded by the gramophone. Some of the worst offenders .were summoned to the 'directors' office, and when they 'denied their Hasty remarks,, they were convicted by.an exact'repfr-: tition of their own voice on the gramophone. Telephone manners ' in. Copenhagen have as ,a' result greatly . improved. ' .
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19100326.2.124
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 775, 26 March 1910, Page 13
Word count
Tapeke kupu
121TELEPHONE MANNERS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 775, 26 March 1910, Page 13
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in