ELECTRONIC OFFICE EQUIPMENT

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27603, 9 March 1955, Page 6

ELECTRONIC OFFICE EQUIPMENT

N.Z. PUBLIC SERVICE’S INTEREST

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. March 8.

The New Zealand Public Service will soon send two persons overseas to study electronic office equipment at close quarters. This move is part of the service’s efforts to keep abreast of technical developments overseas. Delegates to the conference at Auckland of town clerks and municipal treasurers were told of the proposal by Mr J. H. Hunn, a member of the Public Service Commission, in a talk on organisation and methods in the Public Service.

“Electronic brains at first cost from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 dollars,” he said, “but the price is now down to a level that we can contemplate. Mechanisation, of course, is not always the answer to greater one thing, the volume of business may not warrant it.”

Modern technology offered a truly amazing array of office machines, and they were being perfected at such a rate that office staffs of the future might well consist of executives and robots, said Mr Hunn. “This is the age of technology in the field of administration—publie and private. “It is both a curse and a cure. It is a curse in that many young people no longer wish to be clerks if they can be technicians, and it is a cure in that the resultant shortage of clerical workers can be met in large and increasing measure by recourse to the wonderful devices of technology itself.”

STORE PIGS The entry in the . store pig section was the largest for several months and consisted mainly of medium and poorer class weaners. The attendance of buyers was much smaller, and the sale was a dragging one throughout, especially lor plainer type weaners. Values were:— Small weaners, 12s to 255. Best weaners, 28s to 375. Slips, 38s to 465. Small and medium stores, 50s to 645. Large stores, 74s to 90s. TINWALD Fat wethers showed an improvement of 5s to 7s a head on last week’s rates at the Tinwald stock sale yesterday. The store sheep sale was erratic. Fat wethers sold up to 65s for medium quality, to 78s for prime, and up to 87s Id for extra prime quality. Fat ewes realisea up to 25s ld for medium grade and up to 28s Id for prime. Two-tooth maiden ewes sold Up to 81s Id. In the store sheep section, wether lambs sold up to 40s for small lambs, to 53s for medium grade, and up to 62s 6d for good lambs. Adult sheep sold at current values. PLEASANT POINT “The Press’* Special Service TIMARU, March 7. Values showed a distinct appreciation for the 25 head of fat cattle offered at Pleasant .Point stock sale today. Few store cattle were offered. Two races of fat sheep and 800 fat lambs met a firm demand from butchers and exporters, with values showing little change. The inquiry for lambs was very keen in the large offering of store sheep, values appreciating for lambs on recent sales. Values Were:— Fat Cattle.—Fat steers, good £44 to £5l 7s 6d, medium £39 to £43 17s 6d, light £34 to £3B 17s 6d; fat heifers, good £35 to £4l 2s 6d, medium £32 to £34 17s 6d, light £27 7s 6d to £3l 17s 6d; fat cows, good £24 to £2B 2s 6d, medium £2O to £23 17s 6d. light £l4 to £l9. Fat Lambs and Sheep.—Fat ewes, good 30s to 34s 7d, medium 25s to 295, light 18s to 245; fat wethers, good 85s to 89s Id. medium 79s to 84s, light 72s to 78s; fat lambs, good 75s to 80s 7d, medium 69s to 745, light 59s to 68s.

Store Sheep.—Best rape lambs 55s to 61s 6d, medium 48s to 545; small wether lambs, 24s to 40s; rape ewes, 17s to 225; ewe lambs, best 70s to 83s, small 35s to 60s; two-tooth wethers. 70s to 765: two, four, ‘ six, and eight-tooth ewes, to 735; two-shear ewes, to 70s; f. and f. ewes, 30s to 445.