AN EFFICIENT SERVICE

Southland Times, Issue 19517, 17 May 1922, Page 6

AN EFFICIENT SERVICE

TRIBUTE TO TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT A CREDITABLE PERFORMANCE (Per United Press Association.). WELLINGTON, May 16. A high tribute to the worth of the 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 E. A. 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 five 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 get it going in less than two years, though, of course, there was a good deal of development work included in that time. The French had the introducers for quite a while from Paris to London, and so also had Germany, Russia, Italy, and the South Americans, and India andx Ceylon had experts sent out from London. You may tell your young lions that it is a highly creditable performance to get the quadruple duplex working satisfactorily in two or three months without expert instruction from one who knows the game. It is needless to say that the success of the staff also reflects credit on the man at the top. There is no good staff work without a good boss.”