“JUST GOSSIPING”
WOMEN ON PARTY LINES COMPLAINT BY A FARMER That people on party lines, especially in the country districts, often exceeded the time limit of six minutes’ conversation was the subject of a complaint by a Hauraki Plains farmer when speaking on Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Northern Thames Sub-Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union.
The speaker stated that on the morning in question he had wanted to phone a neighbour regarding a matter of some importance but two women also on the party line were using the phone and although he waited much longer than six minutes they would not get off the line. The secretary was asked to write to the postmaster at Paelimiting conversations on party roa asking that the regulation lines if the line is required by any other person to six minutes.
Another farmer complained that he often had the same trouble and the women using the phone were “just gossiping.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3244, 26 March 1943, Page 5
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161“JUST GOSSIPING” Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3244, 26 March 1943, Page 5
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