Post Offices at Home.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1932, Page 6

Post Offices at Home.

The Post Office looks forward to the dav when business men will have teleprinters in the office and will send instantaneous messages direct to other private individuals. For business dealings this would have one important advantage over the telephone--the order would lie in writing and the possibility of misunderstandings would thus be wiped out. The biggest crowds nl children air clustering round two other new inventions. One is a model telephone kiosk which lights up when the daylight fades or when a hand is placed over a window in the root. It is fitted " ith a seleu in in cell (the active principal behind tile “‘talkies'’ and picture transmission) which (urns on a switch when it is deprived of light. ’Phone boxes of the future may. if the experiment is pol into practice, light, up automatically as i| gets dark. The other is a new lire alarm. It registers its own number and position at, (lie lire brigade’s headquarters when the handle is pulled. It also rings a loud hell when it is touched in the vital spot to attract the attention of passers l>v, and so discourage small boys who amuse themselves b.v giving false alarms.