PAST AND PRESENT

Southland Times, Issue 18852, 18 June 1920, Page 5

PAST AND PRESENT

CAHU RECIETERri CONTRASTED. Probably there is nothing to be found ilk Jhe foji;isi ercia 1 house that so reflects th® great strides that business methods hav® made during the pa.-t forty years or so a* the cash register. One of the latest machines of this kiml ha.-, been recently installed in Noble’s premises, I tee street, and in it is a revelation of man’s inventiveness and steady development of a work —all in order that his brothers may give free play to their business gifts unhampered by many of the little worries that cause premature furrows on the brow, l-'rom the adding machines of 20 years or so ago, when each movement — there were not many —was executed through a distinct motion of the hand to the latest triple printing electrically operated and illuminated structure is a step the length of winch forces one to realise how speedy is the steady march of man. This machine gives no fewer than nine separate additions as well as a grand auditing total, which is invaluable to the proprietor of a business. Encases! in steel faced with thin, beautifully stained oak. this cash register is of ornamental value to the establishment apart from ifs utility. After seeing it do fifteen neces:,-arv things in the apace of three seconds one is forced to conclude that the day on which John 11. Pithcnson, president of the National Cash Register Company, entered on his manufacture of these machines a boon was conferred on business men the world over. —Advt.