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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8544, 26 March 1908, Page 5

Calculating machines ■ are certainly j making their way into commercial circles as typewriters did twenty years ago (says the Australian Ironmonger). A firm now supplies a machine in two sizes, differing in "the number of figures for multipliers and products, running up to 18 figures in the latter. They claim that the machine will pay for "itself in six months. It is used in invoicing goods, rates, percentages, proportions, decimals, fractions, exchanges, dividends, interests, profit and loss, freights, discounts, statistics, and multiplies or divides any sum from nine figures in the multiplicand and eight figures in the multiplier; will work out sums of English money in foreign equivalents, the interest or discount at any rate on any sum and for any period, any number of articles at a given price in shillings, or pence, i or pounds, and will work out a series of discounts, such as 75, 7\, and 2\. It prints the figures, and carries forward the results lvith an accuracy that cannot be attained by himan calculations. . " >