WHERE ARE THEY ?

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8004, 18 June 1894, Page 3

WHERE ARE THEY ?

TO TUB EDITOR. | Sir,— ln your report of tho mooting of the North Otago 'Agricultural and Pastoral Association appears a most excellenb suggestion by Mr Lang, viz : " That tho Urge and prosperous business firms should doiuto moio liberally to the special prizos of the show." Shade of Mosoa I Why was not this thought of bofore ? Plojso request Mr L*ng to at once hend your paper a list of tho " l.irgo and prosperous business firms," including, of course, tho Harbor Board, the Borough Council, and tho Bmovolont Uomo, First Prize.

A knighthood, which it must be admitted is well deserved, is that bestowed upon tho venerable Mr Isaao Pitman. Phonography is now coming fust. In conjunction with typewriting it promises to revolutionise many departments of business, and to Mr Pitman tho solo honor of tho working out of tho phonetic ayntoni belongs. \\ hen he commenced his labors tho art of rapid woidtaking was strictly confined to tho few, while now thcro is scarcely a hamlet in the civilised world in which classes aio not established, and it looks as if very hooi\ n man without a knowledge of tho ait would bo considered to bo of defective training. And this spread, which is becoming more and more rapid, is duo entirely to tho usefulness of tho practice. Tho student can case his labors greatly if ho has acquired a nviatcry of shorthand, and what is of still more moment, tho man of business can indefinitely multiply himsolf. Tho great railway magnates of Amentia would bo mi 1 possiblo without their shoithand sucretaiies, while with thii aid their power of giving and conveying tho fullest and most explicit imtruotioua is only restricted by their brainpower of gouQoiviPg them,— Argus,