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Southland Times, Issue 14814, 15 December 1900, Page 3

One of the most marvellous machines human ingenuity ever planned is the linotype. All the operator has to do is to keep pegging away at a set of keys like those of an ordinary typewriter. Every tap releases and drops the mould of a letter, a, punctuation mark or a space. When enough of the moulds of letters, dots and dashes have been dropped to form a line, a jet of molten metal is Hquirted in and a lino of type is the rusult* The operator taps away without intermission, the 'machine goes on at its work, ranking up lines of moulds, pouring metal in them, putting each mould back into its own bin and trimming the rough edges of the line of type and putting it in its place in the wowing column- It is this intelligent compound of wheels and levers which : renders possible standard books well printed 4 and bound iii cloth at sixpence per volume J vrifch which Thomson and Beattie are aston- ■■'"■ ishmg the reading public. i-'^A Great Boon to the South Island. — L ihseed TSiitfLSicw will oore your »U others fail.. Sojd everywhere in bottfe*, Is W and 2« tfd.