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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 99, 27 April 1903, Page 3

Gliristelmrch' "Truth" writes eoneerning the telephone girl: "Driven to desperation, we can ho longer refrain from denouncing the telephone girl as a despot who lias over-long ground IIS and the public generally under her high heel. For months the telephone service of this city lias grown steadily worse, till at last it is quite unbearable. When we consider the time we have wasted in our futile endeavours to convince the telephone girl that life on this earth is not eternal, and that it is mere criminality to spend the most of it in clinging to the 'phone; when we reflect on our entreaties and protests and eloquence on the rare occasions when "the insolent female despot. condescends to listen to us, and connect us after delivering her opinions on our extreme insolence. in disturbing her' serene aloofness from duty—when we ponder on those things, and add to them the fact that the public has had the sa,me experience, we are surprised at our patience.. But the worm has turned,"