TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, 5 July 1932, Page 4

TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

VISIT TO A MODERN OFFICE. Yesterday afternoon, the third year commercial pupils of the Masterton Technical School made a very interesting visit to the offices of Messrs. Thos. Borthwick and Sons, Ltd., and were shown some of the equipment and conveniences of a modern office. The first office instrument explained by the Accountant, Mr. Rogers, was an automatic inter-house telephone system operated by buttons, by which, communication may be made with any part of the office, and by using a code system an individual in any room may be referred to without the intervention of another assistant. To get in touch with any telephone subscriber one of three numbers may be used and all three may be in use at the same time and by an ingenious arrangement a subscriber may be kept on the wire while communication is made with some other part of the office without being switched off, and conversation again continued. The system of loose leaf cash, records, with columns for numerous bank branches, and devices for totalling pages without carrying forward, bank reconciliations, etc., were explained. Examples of loose leaf ledgers and bound ledgers, different ledger rulings, various forms of cash books and journals, steel filing cabinets on ball-bearing rollers, and transfer cabinets, also proved of interest, but especial notice was taken of the demonstration by one of the staff cf some of the uses to which a modern adding machine may be put, with 3 to 6 columns of figures being added up independently or recorded without addition, just as desired. Another very interesting machine was a calculator for various uses, especially multiplication and calculation of exchange on cheques.