PROMPT DISPATCH.
REPORTS OF FOOTBALL MATCH. MESSAGES DIRECT FROM GROUND (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. By installing two teleprinters at Athletic Park on Saturday the Telegraph Department gave very efficient service in handling press reports of the Springboks match. In addition the Department gained experience which will be valuable in enable it to complete plans for handling even heavier traffic when the first Test match is played next Saturday. Altogether 5000 words, including 2000 words of cable messages for overseas, were dispatched from Athletic Park last Saturday. Of this 4000 words were handled from half, time onwards with a minimum of delay. The teleprinters, which are capable of transmitting 66 words a minute, were in direct contact with the Auckland and Wellington offices, from which messages were retransmitted throughout New Zealand as well as overseas. The half-time and final scores would be known in Sydney, for instance, within a matter of a minute or two after the conclusion of each spell.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 255, 9 August 1937, Page 4
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162PROMPT DISPATCH. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 255, 9 August 1937, Page 4
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