"LISTENING-IN"
P. AND T. EMPLOYEES PERTURBED.
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day
Members of the operating staff of the Auckland' Telegraph Ollico aro greatly perturbed at an inquiry in progress relating to conversations over their social telephone during tho course of tho Takapuna Jockey Club's Spring Meeting. ;
It is stated .that the telephone was "tapped" by. means of a duplicate wiro which was switched on to the line, and that! an officer, or officers, '' listen cd-in" to conversations.
As a. result two inspectors have come from Wellington to interrogate all members of tlie staff who used their telbphbnri an Saturday and Monday, particular.attention being paid to talks having a bearing on racing and betting.
The" members interrogated are being confronted with a note of their exact conversation and that of persons at tho other end of the social wire.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 6
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