SECURITY MEASURE
MONITORING OF'TOLL CALLS
PRACTICE DISCONTINUED p.A. WELLINGTON, Oct. 15. At question time in the House of Representatives to-day Mr T. L. Macdonald (Oppn., Wallace) gave notice to ask the Postmaster-general if. it was correct that a system of monitoring toll calls in telephone exchanges, adopted as a security measure in wartime, was still in operation and, if so, did it apply only to toll conversatiohs, or were local conversations also listened to by departmental monitors. Mr Macdonald quoted from an Auckland Press Association report published this morning the statement that under the monitoring system introduced as a war measure and never discontinued the telephone supervisor, the telegraph-telephone superintendent, and a monitor could listen in to operators and the public. Mr Hackett, asking leave to make an immediate reply, said the system of monitoring had never been carried out by the Post Office. Its introduction was permitted in the early stages of the war as a security measure, but it was used only once and had not been operated since by the Post Office. 'A
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26904, 16 October 1948, Page 7
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