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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1930, Page 2

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NEW YORK, August 10. Setting type by telegraph in a series of distant newspaper offices by the operation of a machine in a central office has been accomplished during the past month on newspapers served by news wire of Westchester County. This, tho first practical teletype setter, eliminates the telegraph operator, and handling in receiving at the newspaper office by sub-editors and compositors. It sets type automatically. An item may bo cut or edited to a limited degree at the €teceiving end, but if the maximum speed is desired, the message may not be intercepted.

DUNEDIN,' August 11

Acting under instructions from headquarters, waterside workers have definitely refused to handle cargo worked by the new electric lifting cranes, erected by the Harbour Board on Victoria wharf. This refusal comes suddenly, as when the Union recently asked that its members be employed as crane drivers, there was no hint of a boycott. The Board was of the opinion that its plant should he worked only by its own servants. The boycott means that plant costing over £lO,OOO stands idle, pending a settlement.