"LISTENING IN"?
POST OFFICE TELEPHONE. INQUIRY PROCEEDING. INSPECTORS FROM WELLINGTON. Members of tho operating staff of the Auckland Telegraph OHice are greatly perturbed at an inquiry In progress relating to conversations over their social telephone during the course of the Takapuna Jockey Club's spring meeting. It is stated that this telephone was "tapped" by means of a duplicate wire, which was switched on to the line, and that an officer or officers "listened-in" to the conversations. As a result two inspectors have come from Wellington to interrogate all members of the staff who used their telephone on Saturday and Monday, particular attention being paid to talks having a bearing on racing and betting. Members interrogated are being confronted with a note of their exact conversation and that of the persons at the other end of the social wire.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 287, 4 December 1929, Page 9
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138"LISTENING IN"? Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 287, 4 December 1929, Page 9
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