BANKS COMMERCIAL COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 71, 17 December 1926, Page 3

BANKS COMMERCIAL COLLEGE

SHORTHAND EXAMINATION RESULTS . The following are the successes ot pupils of Banks Commercial College at the recent examination: Government entrance examination for shorthand typists held last November: Senior grade (shorthand, 110 words per minute and typewriting 40 words per minute),-Vivienne.'Law (first on order of merit list for Wellington), Muriel Garratt (third order of merit list), Pearl Silverstone (fourth). Agnes Elliott (fifth), Ruby Fisher (sixth), Muriel Pierce (seventh), M. V. Wall (eighth), Jessie Watt (ninth), Elspeth Campbell (tenth), Esine Wells (eleventh).

Junior grade (shorthand 80 words per minute and typewriting 30 words per minute): Maiorie Jones (first on order of merit list for Wellington), Esme Wells (third order of merit list), Gertrude Avery (fourth), Edna Vear (sixth), Lucy Barber (eighth), Elsie Millen (ninth), Jean Gardner (tenth), Winnie Stewart (eleventh), M. T. Craig (thirteenth). Iris Goldfinch (fourteenth), Elsie Nielson (nineteenth). Speed certificates for Pitman’s shorthand: 130 words per minute, D. Scaife. 120 words per minute, Leot Gibbs and Vivienne -Law; 110 words ner minute, Rosalind Atkinson. Elspeth Campbell, Agnes Elliott. Muriel Garratt, G. McKinlay and Pearl Silverstone.

100 words per minute: Ruth Brennan. Freda Buck, Evelyn Catto, Phyllis Dale, Phyllis Dennis, Jean Gardner, Iris Goldfinch, Lucy Hickey, Marjorie Jones, Elsie Millen, Jo’ycelyn Millner, Mavis Stewart, Mrs. G. Spink, Freda Stott, Edna Vear, Jessie Watt, Esme Wells, and Joyce Young. 90 words per minute: Gertrude Avery, Kathleen. Gaby, Annie Gold, Jean Tolley .and Muriel Pierce. 80 words per minute': Marjorie Atkinson, Lucy Barber, Kathleen Byrne, M. Craig, Essie Gill, Betty Hamilton, N. Hansen. Elva Harris, ’ Marjorie Mclntosh, Esme Nicol, Myra Stott, Winnie Stewart, Lena XVebb, Molly Wilson and Isobel Young; 70 words per minute: Elsie Nielson. Theory certificates for Pitman’s shorthand: Joyce Aldous, Lucy. Barber, Tessa Bornasconi, G. M. Biirbidge, Kathleen .Byrne, <i Dorothy ' Carson, -L. -Ml Carter, Evelyn Catto, Doris Chapman M. Craig, I Crowe. Bronnie Davis, Olive Edmonds, Maisie Francis,' Betty Hamilton, Elva Harris, Iris Goldfinch, Beatrice House, Edna Hunter, Dorothy Jenkins, Marjorie Jones, Alma Long. Gladys MacDonald, Molly Madden. Phyllis Marqiiet, Agnes McMillan, Elsie Millen, Elsie Neilson. E. Pearse, Ella Pfeffer. Kathleen Platt, Myra Powdrell, K. Rankin, Dorothy Richmond, Mildred Rising, Alison Gibson-Smith. Lizzie Stevens. Myra Stott. Pat Tankard, Florence Taylor, Phyllis Tomlin. Vera Tolan, Edna Vear, Evelm Watson-Munro, B. Webb. Nellie Wilde, Molly Wilson, Eleanor Wynne and Isobel Young.