CO129-510-21 Hong Kong and Canton wireless service- report- and recommendations 7-8-1928 - 7-8-1928 — Page 39

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Reliability can be obtained by simply obtaining first class

apparatus of suitable power. The matter of speed is more

difficult because it depends so much on the human element:

the success of telegraph system depends equally on the

efficiency of the counter staff, despatch clerks and

messengers as it does on the engineering staff.

The

employment of men trained in despatch work, and the

provision of cycles for messengers is very desirable.

The provision of time stamps is always a necessity: each

man that handles the message should chop it with his own

timed chop; the envelopes that contain the message should

have a receipt label of the tear-off type attached; on the

label should be the time when the message was sent out and

the receiver should put the time on when he receives the

message, the receipts being carefully checked and any

avoidable delay dealt with. Unless this is done it is

useless to spend money on high speed transmission gear.

(Sd.)

L. H. King,

M. I. E. E.

19th March, 1928.