THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1922, Page 5

THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE.

NEW SYSTEM IN OPERATION. A TRIBUTE TO THE STAFF. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington Last Night... A high tribute to the work of the New Zealand Telegraph Department is paid by Mr. Donald Murray (inventor of the multiplex telegraph instrument, and. head of the firm which supplies these machines). Writing to the Chief Telegraph Engineer (Mr. A. E. Shrimpton), Mr. Murray says: “It may interest you to know tnat yours is the first administration in the world to establish the multiplex in successful operation in a, few months, simply from books and without personal instruction. It took Baudot years to get the multiplex working in France, and the Western I nion did not get going in less than two years, though, of course, there was a good deal of development work included in that time. The British Post Office had French instructors from Paris for quite a while in London, and so also had Germany. Russia, Italy and the South Americans, and India and Ceylon had experts sent out from London. Yon may tell your young lions that it is a highly-creditable performance to get the quadruple duplex working satisfactorily in two or three months, without expert instruction from one who knows the game Needless to sav that the success of the staff also reilects credit on the man at the top, for there is no good staff work without a good boss.”