SHORTHAND EXAMINATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 147, 18 December 1924, Page 9

SHORTHAND EXAMINATIONS

The following is' a list of the successes of Banks College students at the recent examinations:— Government Examination for ShorthandTypistes. Senior.—Miss Nellie Starr (first on order of merit list), Miss Nora Jacobwnn(£o^thu °rd? r Of Wit)> Miss Annie Wells (fifth order of merit). (Only six .passes for Wellington district). Junior.—Miss Dorothy Wray (first on order of merit list), Miss Joyce Collett (second on order of merit list), Miss Clare O'Brien (fourth on order of merit list), Miss Kareen Johansson (fifth on order of merit list), • and Misses Berny Aplm, Alice Pickup, Stella Mexted. (Only fifteen passes for Wellington district). : ■ ' . Speed Certificates for Pitman's Shorthand. ■ 140-150 words per minute Miss N. Starr. 120 words per minute.—Misses E Farnham, L. G. Keys, Hazel Page, Annie Wells, M. Williams, and Mr. C. R. James. „

110 words per minute.—Misses Beryl Hunter, Nora Jacobsen, Edith Riddick Gladys Wylie, and Mr. D. W. R. Heatley.

100 words per minute.—Misses Eva Barton, Beryl Downes, I. Gardner, M. Gardner, Ruby May,' V. G. Newman j Aileen Outtrim, Edna Sinclair, and Mr J. T. Collin.

90 words per minute.—Miss G. B, Wiuchcombe.

80 words per minute.—Misse3 Kathleen Adams, Alma Biber, Marion Bennett, Joyce Collett, Hilda Cowlam, Sylvia Evans, M. Gold, Miriel Hewitt, Myrtle Jacobson, Stella Mexted, Clare O'Brien, Enid Stott, Freda Stott, Maimie White, .Dorothy Wray, and I. K. Wyllie. 70 words per minute.—Misses Berry Aplin, Eileen Bass, Linda Fittis, Irene Foster, Kareen Johansson, Maisio Johnstone, and Alice Pickup. Theory Certificates for Pitman's Shorthand. Misses Berry Aplin, Lila Brady, Yvonne Jacques-Blackmore, C. Coghlan, Hilda Cowlam, Mavis Elliott, Vida Elliott, Ruby Esperson, Gladys Evans, Nancy Faulkner, Euby Fisher, Linda Fittis, Irene Foster, Phyllis Fraser, Mrs. R. E. Gillmore, Misses Minnie Glazer, Phyllis Gray, Kathleen Hannafiu, Gwenith Herron, Muriel Hewitt, Nellie Hood, Vera Jackson, Myrtle Jacobson, Kareen Johansson, Wilhma Joy, Betty King, Joyce Laurie, Vera Lutzky,' Joan - Manning, Greta M'Arley, E. Mayo, , Stella Mexted, Piona Moore, Clare O'Brien, Aileen Outtrim, Alice Pickup, Helen Radcliffe, Olive Sawyer, Hilda Simpkiss, Jean Tolford, Nance Wallace . Dorothy, Watts, Ethel Weaver, Eileen West, Dorothy White, Dorothy Wray, and I. K. Wyllie.

Explaining a woman's occupation a witness at the Willesden Police Court recently said: "She sells sholllish from a elall."

Bobbed hair is shown on a waif painting in Wymington Church, which was built iri 1380. The picture is reputed to bs aa old as the churcli.