Piles of Pennies

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 20

Piles of Pennies

DURING THE WEEK-END AUCKLAND SPENT £4O 6s IN STAMPS

BUSY AUTOMATIC MACHINES £4O 6s in pennies. Yesterday morning 9,672 coppers stood in shining £ites in the Auckland Post Office.' This represents the number of stamps ■which were sold by the ejght automatic stamp-selling machines at the Post Office during Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It is a record for three days. It would have taken a man four and a-half days, working seven hours a day, to sell this amazing number of stamps over the counter. The amount mentioned above does not represent the total number of stamps sold at the Auckland Post Office during the week-end. Officials at the stamp counters, of v hieh there are several, were selling them as fast as they could. Mr. J. Dickie, the inventor of the automatic selling machines, who also looks after them, filled the machines as fast as they were emptied. All day long he kept replacing the rolls of stamps in the tiny sellers. This morning lie was still busy, counting the pennies, no small undertaking when there are thousands of them. The fame of the time, labour and money-saving machine which Mr. Dickie has invented lias spread throughout the world. Inquiries have been received from Ceylon, asking" for particulars, and also from Egypt.