BLIND SHORTHAND WRITERS
A TEST SUCCESSFUL. (BT TBLEGBAPH.— EBES3 ASSOCIATION 1 AUCKLAND, This Day. When making a short speech at the* Industrial Exhibition, the Premier spokeat tho rate of eighty words a minute .for the benefit of a student from theBlind Institute using one of the shorthand type machines invented for the -use of blind persons. The boy managed to take his report easily. The* reading of the notes was done" entirely .by tho sense of touch. Sir Joseph used several long words purposely to test the. student, which were afterwards repeated with accuracy and without hesitation. The Premier said he hoped to see the shorthand students from the institute taking their place as stenographers in commercial and professional houses.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 42, 18 August 1908, Page 8
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