TAPPING OF PHONE TALKS LEADS TO AN INQUIRY.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 44, 5 December 1929, Page 5

TAPPING OF PHONE TALKS LEADS TO AN INQUIRY.

MEMBERS OF TELEGRAPH STAFF ARE QUESTIONED. INSPECTORS FROM WELLINGTON Press Association Copyright. AUCKLAND, This DayConversations on the telephone used by the operating staff of the Auckland Telegraph Office during the Takapuna Jockey Club’s meetings on Saturday and Monday have resulted in the interrogation of over 40 members of the telegraph staff by two inspectors of the Department who were summoned from "Wellington, The line wa s tapped by laying a pioyees sought legal advice. wire under the carpet a nd the officers j It is the rule of the Department of the Department took a note of all j that any officer refusing to supply mthe conversations hearing on betting l formation to his superior may be eus0r tjps _ j pended, and betting conversations oh Those who used the telephone were telegraph phones by officers on duty confronted with notes of these con- are strictly forbidden, vorsatious. In some cases the cm- .