STAMP-VENDING MACHINE
Post Office Men’s Development
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 23. Two Post Office workmen have developed in their own time a stamp-vending machine to beat vandals and also to take threepenny coins. One of the machines will be installed next week, probably on a railway station, to undergo trial. Five others will be installed in various parts of New Zealand to see . how they stand up to such, things as hard work and humidity. The inventors (Messrs R. B. Georgeson and P. F. Helbron, of the Post and Telegraph Department’s mechanical workshops in Wellington) have been working on their idea for two years. They have patented the invention and sold rights to it to the Post Office. The machines work on the pushbutton principle and have a device which will pass objects like washers harmlessly past the slot threepences fall into. Previously the Post Office has not been able to find a stampvending machine to handle threepences. Present machines take pennies and sixpences, the latter issuing two threepenny stamps. School Certificate.— The name of P. G. Duncan. Avonside Girls’ High School, was inadvertently omitted from the school certificate pass list published yesterday.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28802, 24 January 1959, Page 7
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