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Southland Times, Issue 23379, 10 December 1937, Page 16

AT YOUR RADIO SERVICE. 94ft 1 INVERCARGILL RADIO CO. DEE STREET. Above Russell & Peterson’s. Nq49o

The necessity for hailing a porter when one requires information on the Dunedin railway station will shortly be made unnecessary when an information machine is placed in operation. The machine; a tall erection of blackpainted steel, is already to be seen in the main entrance to the station, but its installation will not be completed until full details of special holiday trains have been printed and placed in its interior ready to spring into view at the pressing of a button by anyone desiring the knowledge it has to give (states The Otago Daily Times). Similar machines have been in use in the north and in other parts of the world for some time, but it is an innovation so far as Dunedin is concerned. 'Hie machine, apart from its mechanical construction, consists of a window below which are situated about 50 buttons. Having the need for some piece of information about train time tables or fares, the traveller has only to consult an index, press the button concerned, and there appears at the window a card on which is printed all the desired facts.