SHE WOULDN’T BE BEATEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 30 January 1936, Page 5

SHE WOULDN’T BE BEATEN

An amusing story of how sho triumphed over Post Oll'ice telephone officials, is told by Miss Nin’h, Boyle. She said that when she was having a telephone installed recently, she was asked by an official to state in the forms whether she was married or single. She replied: “You don’t ask men that question.” “Oh, no, madam,” replied the official. “Still we wish to know whether you are married, or a widow, or single.’ ‘Well,’ I told him, ‘you won't knoiv; that is nobody’s business but mine.’ With that he refused to deal with me altogether. So I said, ‘All right, I will deal with the Postmaster-General.’ Then lie evidently thought better of it, for he said that he would leave the papers, and 1 could till them in myself. I did this, but did not put in whether I was married, or single, and the papers were returned with the request that I should Till in my status, I replied’that my status was that of a householder and a voter, and that I would be glad if they would quote me any Act of Parliament which would bar me from the privilege of owning a telephone simply because I refused to disclose my personal affairs. The next day the men came and installed my telephone.”