MISTAKE COSTS £loo
TELEPHONE TO AUSTRALIA ENGLISH SERVANT'S CALLS LONDON. May 22 A resident of North wood (Middlesex) recently went on holiday leaving his house in the charge of servants. He returned to find his telephone bill more pudiated. The Post Office authorities replied that two half-hour calls to Australia were responsible, and the householder then learned that his maidservant had telephoned to her young man in Australia on the assumption that calls made after 7 p.m. were one shilling to anywhere.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22427, 25 May 1936, Page 11
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82MISTAKE COSTS £l00 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22427, 25 May 1936, Page 11
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