SPEED WRITERS' EXAMINATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 62, 10 September 1921, Page 6

SPEED WRITERS' EXAMINATIONS

The director of Gilby's College has received from Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., Melbourne, the results of a shorthand speed examination held at Gilby's College, on 27th July. Twelve candidates for Pitman's speed certificates were examined, ten of whom were successful, as under::— ' : < Doris Horwood and Grace Judge (100 words per minute); Frances W. Fisher (90 words per minute); Eleanor Edith Robb (80 words per minute);' Ethel Bird (70 words per minute); Ina Cooper, Vera Grindrod, Clara Johnston, . Gwynith Someryille, Irene Whitmarsh (60 words per minute). Mr. A. W. Kitson, F.1.P.5., who acted as supervisor, also examined eight stenotype machine operators, and granted seven certificates to the undermentioned, the percentage of errors in each case being less than 2 per cent. Miss Frances Cullen rendered her transcript work perfect:— Frances Cullen (100 words per ihinute), 100 per .cent.; Vera Charman and Isabel Lithgow (80 words per minute), 99.5 per cent. ;■ Olive Mitchell (80 words per minute), 99.25 per cent.; Hazel Dewhurst (60. words per minute), 99 per cent.>; Brendft Johnston (60 words per minute), 98.7 per cent.; Esma Brough (60 words per minute), 98 per cent. ' . , Miss Myrtle Simmons, a writer of, Graham shorthand, gained a certificate for 60 iwords per minuto.