" One of the most wonderful accomplishments attained' by blind soldiers,' said Mr Clutha Mackenzie, in his lecture on St. Dunston's Hospital in Wellington, "la that of uhorthand-typlng." The patients learned to manipulate shorthand machines, an instrument something like the etenotype, but with six keys only, until they were proficient to " take down " dictated passages at a normal rate.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3444, 16 March 1920, Page 61
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