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Press, 6 March 1978, Page 24

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THE PRINTED WORD

No doubt the advent of television has lessened the necessity of being able to read, but the average person ’ J a right to be proud of this accomplishment and apart from that, would find it difficult to carry on without this attribute to the T.A.B. However, this story concerns a North Canterbury woman who does not bet on horses for the very good reason that they’ have no T.A.B. at her golf club. But she is a keen and avid reader.

f In fact, next to golf and all that it entails, she devotes practically all of her remaining waking ‘ ours to reading. t That is why she de- ; cided to join the Christchurch Public Library the other day. She went to ■ the appropriate counter, - stated her reason for being there to a bright ' young thing who handed her the inevitable form to > fill in. At that particular 1 stage she opened her bag t for har glasses to find t they were Heaven knew > where. To the best of her abil-

ity she examined the card, some words she could foggily make out — like “Name” and “Address” — but there was a word in brackets that really stumped her. Finally she beckoned the counter girl over and. asked her what the particular word was. Looking at our poor North Canterbury woman in a rather withering manner the assistant said. “P-R-I-N-T — Print.” and handed the card back as though to say what the deuce do you ’want books for if you cannot read.