TELEPHONE BILL FOR £loo
MAIDSERVANT’S COSTLY MISTAKE LONDON, May 22. A resident of Northwood, who recently took a holiday leaving the house in charge of servants, returned to find a telephone bill for more than £IOO, which he indignantly repudiated. The Post Office replied that two half-hour calls to Australia were responsible, after which the householder learned that a maid-servant had telephoned a young man in Australia on the assumption that calls after 7 p.m were Is anywhere.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21791, 25 May 1936, Page 17
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78TELEPHONE BILL FOR £l00 Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21791, 25 May 1936, Page 17
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