SPEED AND EFFICIENCY

Evening Star, Issue 19328, 14 August 1926, Page 10

SPEED AND EFFICIENCY

, CGMBIHIHG THEM l!i BUSINESS In these days, when hustle and speed have come to he the watchword of business, the need for employing the most up-to-date methods is very evident. It is plain that speed must go hand in hand with efficiency; that the business man must move quickly and at the same time be sure that all he does it correct. It is in combining economy of effort with _ increased efficiency (ensured by the introduction of methods that aro mechanically precise) that the National Cash Register Company has made its name. The ‘ Evening Star ! Company has jnst installed a National Cash Register, which, it is anticipated, will greatly improve the counter service in the office. The installing of the machine is ho experiment; the register lias proved, and more than proved, all that has at any. time been claimed of it. The Dunedin City Corporation has long had one in use, and it is interesting to note that the machine in the Town Hall (an electrically-operated one) was the first of its kind in New Zealand. The machine , installed in the office of this paper is operated by a small electric motor at its back. It is the first to ho used in a Dunedin newspaper office. Its introduction means the changing of the reply cards which advertisers receive when they pass their advertisements over the counter. The register, in addition to recording tho amount taken and the number of the advertisement for ledger purposes, prints the reply card with the cost of the advertisement and its number. The machine can ho operated on bv four cashiers, and it will give an instant audit of the cash' taken and paid out whenever required. It is a cleverly devised calculating machine, recording separately and totally all tho transactions, the cash totals in each department for tho day, and tho identity of the operator handling each transaction. It gives a total, too, of tho number of customers. Further description is not needed to prove its value to any firm in business of any kind. National Cash Registers have been proved thoroughly satisfactory in big newspaper offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Auckland, and Christchurch.—l4B26.