EXHIBITION POST OFFICE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 26

EXHIBITION POST OFFICE.

STAFF ALWAYS BUSY. One of iho most active of the many New Zealand Government departments at the Exhibition has been the Post and Telegraph Department, under the charge of Mr L. King, the postmaster. From the time the doors opened until they closed in the evening there was hardly a moment in which there was not somebody waiting at the public counter. It has been a success from beginning to end. and in being a success in itself it has also contributed largely to the success of the Exbition. In conversation with a reporter. Mr King said that the steady stream of visitors in and out of the little office had provided sufficient work for a staff of seven for nine hours a day. It was always anticipated, he said, that the officials stationed there woild have well earned theii salaries by the closing date, but the constant pressure of business had more than satisfied them ir. their desire to assist in making the big shew the huge success it was. The cordial relations which had existed be tween the staff and the public indicated that the service had been well appreciated by all who patronised this branch of a wonderfully organised and well conducted Government department. The technical officers, who had been explaining the working of an automatic telephone exchange. Ihe Murray Printing Telegraph Machine, and a wireless transmitting and receiving set, felt that a much better understanding now existed between the department and those who used the telephone and telegraph service in their daily life. Telephone subscribers have been “put wise” to the method of handling their calls nndor the present system, and also how they w;ou]d be handled hv the automatic machine switching system. The correction of the many false ideas of the exchange attendants’ occupation, and of the telegrams which are printed on blue tape, had justified the presence of the demonstrators throughout the whole period of the Exhibition. Although too technical for the majority of people to understand fully the demonstrations had been verv popular. The general public of New Zealand now had a ffood knowledge of the activities of the Post and Telegraoh Department, a knowledge which would undoubtedly assist in the maintenance of the cordial relation? which had always existed between officials of this department and the business public.