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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25551, 20 July 1948, Page 2

Miss Eve Hardiman, who graduated with honours as Bachelor of Laws at Birmingham University recently, plans to become the first blind woman solicitor in Britain. She is 28 years of age, and has been blind for 11 years. When she became blind, she bhgan training as a shorthand typist. Shu took Royal Society of Arts certificates for 120 words a minute Braille shorthand and 55 words a minute typing. Later she studied law, and after taking an intermediate examination at °f 3f ield University in 1946 she was articled to a Shrewsbury solicitor. The Education Committee at Rotherham, Yorkshire, her home town, helps to pay her university fees. She will take her final examination in 1951. For the last two years she has travelled 42 miles by train to Birmingham for law lectures three times a week, and friends have accompanied her to the university. She took all lecture notes in Braille shorthand, and at night spent hours transcribing her notes into ordinary Braille before she started to study. To graduate she took nine three-hour examination pacers, typing her answers on an ordinarv typewriter in a room by herself. The papers had been “translated” into Brailje and were read to her by an attendant.

Institute of Surveyors.—The widening of Victoria street from the Avon to Bealey avenue, and a proposed lay-out for a town hall in Latimer souare were discussed bv Mr R. S. D. Harman, in a recent address to the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, on “Inner Improvements of Christchurch.” The branch passed a resolution expressing its support for his proposed improvements.