MODERN METHODS
POST OFFICE WORKSHOPS SPECIAL CLEANING SYSTEM The specialised requirements of so large a department as the post office keep large staffs of skilled workers busy in the department's workshops. Repairs range over a wide variety of articles, including the electrical and mechanical types and the varied equipment for handling millions of mail packages every year. The wood-working shops in Wellington are equipped for mass-produc-tion of articles which have to he produced in thousands. As many as 3000 wall-brackets for mounting table telephones have been made in a year, and the neat base-boards for telephone key-boards which have to be well finished to a particular pattern must he turned out in hundreds. Offices are kept tidy by equipping them with form holders exactly fitting the great variety of stationery in official use, and orders for this class of equipment run into thousands. More familiar to the public are the posting-boxes made in two standard sizes and very carefully designed on weather-proof lines. Telephone cabinets for public call offices are turned out. here in complete shape ready for placing in the slreet. Wood-work machinery of the most modern type is used by the department.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20508, 26 May 1938, Page 14
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194MODERN METHODS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20508, 26 May 1938, Page 14
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