TELEGRAPH OFFICIALS

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4591, 17 May 1922, Page 2

TELEGRAPH OFFICIALS

HIGH TRIBUTE FROM INVENTOR MURRAY. “GOOD STAFF—GOOD BOSS.” (Por Press Association.) Wellington, May 16. t A high tribute to the work of the New Zealand Telegraph Department is paid by Mr Donald Murray, inventor of tho multiplex telegraph instrument, and head of the firm vbicb supplies these machines. Writing to the Chief Telegraph Engineer (Dir A. E. Shrimpton), Mr Murray says: “It may interest you to know that yours is tho 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 Franco, and the Western Union did not get it going in less than two years, though, of course, there was a good deal of development wink included in that time. The British Post Office had French instructors for quite a while from Paris in London, so algo had Germany, Russia, Italy, and tho South Americans and India and Ceylon had experts sent out from London. You may tel! your young lions that it is a highly creditable performance to get tbe quadruplox duplex working satisfactorily in two or three months without expert instruction from one who knows tho game. Needless to say, that success of tho staff also reflects credit on the man at the top. There is no good staff work without a good boss.”