CLERKS WASTE FIVE MILES OF LEAD PENCILS.
The management of a large railroad, in its New Year reformations for cutting down expenses, has adopted an odd feature. It has ordered removed from its several hundred or thousand offices the mechanical pencilsharpeners used by the clerks to keep their pencils in needle-point condition. The statistician for the road found that these machines, whiph were a temptation to clerks and stenographers every time they passed them, to put a new point on their pencils, used up 325,000 extra inches of pencils each year unnecessarily. This huge waste of over five miles of lead pencils, has thus been stopped, which, according to the road's estimate, will result in a saving of about £500 a year.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 7 August 1912, Page 7
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122CLERKS WASTE FIVE MILES OF LEAD PENCILS. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 7 August 1912, Page 7
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