Teleprinters to be introduced

Telegram printing is not exactly a new discovery, but the application of electrical machines which will enable a message to be typewritten at one end and come out printed at the other is new to this country, although in use in every main circuit in England, France and America. Some machines of this description are due to arrive here by the first direct steamer — probably this week. Mr E.A. Shrimpton, Chief Telegraph Engineer, stated to a Dominion reporter that the consignment consisted of two multiplex machines and one startstop combination, which would enable communications by printed telegram to be established almost at once, either between Wellington and Christchurch or Wellington and Auckland. To illustrate the wonders of this invention, Mr Shrimpton said that one such

machine could be established in the Dominion office and another in the Christchurch Press office, and, using one wire, messages could be sent along and printed at the same time by two reporters typing their copy at either end, on a keyboard similar to that of a typewriter.