COURT OFFICIALS FEAT
TYPING OF 275,500 WORDS KOPUAWHARA INQUESTS [by telegraph—owx correspondent] GISBORNE, Thursday Officials of Magistrate's and Supreme Courts in New Zealand are often called upon during- the hearing of lengthy proceedings to perform feats of typing. This was illustrated again in the performance of the clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Wairoa and his assistant during the Kopuawhara inquests. Nineteen inquests were held, and altogether 19 witnesses were heard. There were 48 pages of evidence, but it was to type 19 separate copies of evidence, bringing the number of pages up to 912. The.-total number ,of words in thu actual evidence given was approximately 14,500. With the 49 fcopies that had to be taken the ; total number of words was approximately 275,500. Each witness was required to sign 19 j-copies of each page of his, evidence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23019, 22 April 1938, Page 10
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