“JUST GOSSIPING”
WOMEN ON TELEPHONE PARTY LINES COMPLAINTS BY FARMERS That people on telephone party lines, especially in country districts, often exceeded the time limit of six minutes’ conversation, was the subject of a complaint by a Hauraki Plains farmer when speaking at the annual meeting of the Northern Thames Sub-provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. The speaker stated that one morning he .had wanted to telephone a neighbour regarding a matter of some importance, but* two women on the party line, were using their telephones, and though he waited much longer than six minutes they would not get off the line.
The secretary was asked to write to the postmaster at Paeroa and ask for the observance of the limiting a conversation on a party line to six minutes if the line is required by another person. Another farmer complained that he often had the same trouble and said that the women using the telephones were “just gossoping.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5600, 2 April 1943, Page 4
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