TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18703, 1 August 1932, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.

MECHANICAL TRANSMISSION. POSSIBLE IN NEW ZEALAND. In New Zealand, as in England, there is a likelihood that the Morse system of conveying telegraphic messages will be replaced by the teleprinter (says the Christehuroh Sun). It has been announced at Home that the ohange-over would be a part of an economy plan, and It is presumed that a reduction in file number of telegraph operators will be involved. Staff reductions would follow a similar change-over In New Zealand, it was stated. It is known ' that the teleprinter system has for some time been under the notice of the head office of the Post and Telegraph Department in Wellington. In the teleprinter system the message is typed at the transmitting end, and Is automatically typed off at the other end—the multiplex is the nearest approach to the teleprinter system at present in use in New Zealand. '• The teleprinter has been in use overseas for some years, particularly in America. It is thought likely that the proposed British change-over will be applied to main lines only. It Is estimated that the move will speed up the whole service at Home, as well as contributing toward .a reduction in the financial losses experienced recently. Last year there was a loss of £828,000 on the British telegraph service. Attention is being paid to the 'possibilities of the teleprinter system by the engineers’ branch of the Post and Telegraph Department in Wellington, a Sun reporter gathered.