A HIGH TRIBUTE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2125, 17 May 1922, Page 5

A HIGH TRIBUTE.

TO TELEGRAPH OFFICIALS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. A high tribute to the work of th< New Zealand Telegraph Department is paid by Mr Donald Murray, inventor of the multiplex telegraph instrument, and head of the firm which supplies these machines. Writing to the Chief Telegraph Engineer (Mr A. E. Shrimpton), Mr Murray says: "It may interest you to know that yours is the 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 France, and the Western Union did not set it going in less than two years, though, of course, there was a good deal of development work included in that time. The British Post Office had Fre.nch instructors for quite a while from Paris in London, so also had Germany, Russia, Italy and the South Americans and India and Ceylon had experts sent out from London. You may tell your young lions that it is a highly creditable performance to get the quadruplex duplex working satisfactorily in two or three months without expert instruction from one who knows the game. Needless to say. that success of the staff also deflects credit on the man at the top. There is no good staff work without a good boss."