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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8543, 25 March 1908, Page 5

The typewriting machine clicked merrily away under the hands of the operator, who appeared at first- glance to be a typical typist. Then"(rt!ates the Daily Mail) she stopped, and her fingers flew along a narrow strip of paper. She was reading her shorthand notes "by fingertouch," for she-' was blind. The typist was Miss Sarah Ann Bargato, who was sent five years ago by the Lambeth Guardians to the Royal College for the Blind. She is now an expert shorthandtypist, and is seeking a situation. " I do want to get a post," she said. "so that I can -earn my living. ' Of course, what- I really want is a place where I could live in." Miss Bargato can take shorthand potes at the rate of nearlv 100 words a minute upon a shorthand machine, an instrument which punches abbreviated words in the Braille system upon a tape, and typewrite at about forty words a minute.