A NEW TELEGRAM FORM.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1554, 25 September 1912, Page 6

A NEW TELEGRAM FORM.

TO BE INTRODUCED TO-DAY. Last year flic Post mul Telegraph Department made a trial of a new received telegram form with perforated and gummed tabs for closing the form. At that time a rotary machine- for shaping, perforating and printing the form at one operation was in process of constructioni but owing to extended difficulties the machine was not brought into full operation until the beginning of the present mouth, and t he use of the form w temporarily abandoned. Now that the preparation of the form is .1 success commerciallv, (he Department intends to reintroduce it to-day at the Wellington Telegraph Office. The form is attractive and nent in appearance, and as it is somewhat narrower than the present form there is no difficulty in filing it on standard sizs letter files. To fold the iorm an invention, which has- been on trial for manv months past at the General Post Office and at the Wellington Telegraph Office,-is to be'used. This folding machine is capable under ordinary circumstances of folding fifteen telegrams per minute, and at; a pinch, with one. boy deftlv feeding and another turning the. handle, could turn out twenty-five or iwentv-six per minute. The, machine, is simple, nmi all that the attendant has to do is to lav the form face upwards on n sloping table at one end, turn the lianille and"take the form out at the other end of the machine, ready folded. 11 may be mentioned Hint, the form when last in use found great favour with the business people.