Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Telephone Service – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 March 1947.
Mr Wilfrid Burke
, Burnley
12:00,
19 March 1947
It is an expenditure of labour, and, on the face of it, it does seem rather unwise, but, if there is a doctor or some other person in urgent need, and another person happens to get a telephone simply because he is a new tenant of a house, that would constitute unfairness to the doctor.