LIMIT OF MACHINERY

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1313, 26 January 1928, Page 4

LIMIT OF MACHINERY

AI EC IT A XIC A L A RITHMETIC

‘ l can see it- is liigK. time we installed one o-f those electric >*mcliines that adds tip, subtract and do things,” said Or. \\ . Hair at tH© meeting of the Kiwitea County Council when reference was made ’ 0 the volume of statistical information required.

The clerk, Mr \Y. L. Hesseltme, replied that sucli a machine was quite right, provided the ncccsasry data, was ticked up on the keyboard. “We cannot put it in the strong room, switch on and leave it to turn out nicely tabulated returns of its own effort, you know,” he remarked amidst laughter. Cr. Hair declared that he read an advertisement somewhere to the effect that the machine would! work out all or is of problems that no man could solve \(L a ugh t er.)