POST OFFICE ACCOUNTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26617, 13 November 1947, Page 11

POST OFFICE ACCOUNTS

NEW LEDGER SYSTEM INTRODUCTION OF MACHINE PROCESS The Post Office Savings Bank :dgers. which were previously andled manually, were changed over uring the week-end to machine proess. The task of transferring some 5,000 accounts to new ledger cards nd balancing them necessitated long ours of work on Saturday and Sunay, the full change-over to the new ystem being completed at midnight n Sunday. Nine accounting machines rere used for the work A special staff of five expert opera>rs. under the supervision of Mr O. J. [ullins, deputy director of accounts jr the Post and Telegraph Departlent. and Mr W. M. Downey, of the 1.P.0., Wellington, was brought to luriedin. and with the assistance of ie local operators put the whole of le accounts through the machines in icord time. , A _ . ~ The training of local staff in the lanipelation of the machine is at res°nt being carried out Although lere will not be any noticeable ranges in the Savings Bank system om the public point of view, it js nticipated that some speeding up in ie handling of withdrawals will be iparent. In addition, the insertion of iterest in the pass books at the end f each year should be carried out at ■act three weeks earlier than hitherto Members of the public will be asked i furnish fresh specimens of their sigatvres. owing to the fact that the gnatures were previously attached to ie old ledger cards. The new system ill ultimately result in staff Ravines, nd the need for a considerable ■mount of overtime at balance periodc ill be avoided. Moreove- once th® sw signature system has been eStanshed, there will be a considerable ivirig in floor space occupied by the >df*ers machines will be permanent.lv istflied in Dunedin. Book-keeping ach’nes have already been installed t Potorra. Gisborne. Palmerston orth. Nanier. Lower Hutt. .Masterton. id Dunedin, the Dun'fedin installation ;ing easily the largest so far installed.