SHORTHAND COMPETITIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13876, 13 April 1907, Page 10

SHORTHAND COMPETITIONS.

•Siis, —Tho information vouchsafed by 1 '' Pitnwnite" in yonr issue of the lltii , inst., that classes arc already in progress s at a well-known shorthand school for speed : certificates, is not new to me. But does 1 your correspondent mean to suggest that • . the 'existence of such a class offsets the r necessity 'or an open competition such as I u'dvocatc? As "well aj-guo that bccausc ' elocution arid singing, classes are conducted l)v \vell-known and popular teachers' competition in those subjects is a superfluity, The existence of the class mentioned shows • that a competition would meet with prac- • ticnl support, and its establishment would [ speedily bring into being other classes of I aspiring phonographcrs. Here let me mention that nv Ihq competition in Christchurch the students using the Gregg system ? achieved distinction, gaining a number of j prizes. ' Now, as a believer in Pitman's system for' all-round use and permanent ; legibility, it would afford mc groat picasure lo sec some of our speedy local scribes , uphold the proslige of Pitman's method by e defeating on equal terms any' champion r of Gregg's who might come forward, Christ' r church iin.-, I believe, a number of speedy ;. Gregg writers, and if sufficient inducement t were offered some might be induced to 5 come south for the day or two necessary r at Iho Dunedin Competitions' annual fixe turc. Permit mc, Sir, ere closing, to i. asain nrge upon those in authority the ■ desirability of widening the scope of the society's propaganda in the direct ion indi- • sated.—l am. ctc., Pituas.