TRIBUTE TO NEW ZEALAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18556, 17 May 1922, Page 6

TRIBUTE TO NEW ZEALAND

THE MULTIPLEX TELEGRAPH MACHC4E. (Pkb United Pbbse Association.) WELLINGTON, May 16. A high tribute to the work of the New' Zealand Telegraph Department is paid by Mr Donald Murray. (inventor of the -multiplex telegraph instrument, and head of the firih 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 vears to get the multiplex working in Franco, and the Western Union did not get 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. French instructors for quite a long while from Paris in London, so also had Germany, Russia,, and Italy, and the South Americans, India, and Ceylon had experts!sent out from London. You may- tell your young lions it is a highly creditable performance to get a quadruple duplex working satisfactorily in two or three months without expert instruotion from one who knows the game. It is needless to say that the success of the staff also reflects credit on the man --t the top. There is no good staff work without a good boss ”