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Otago Witness, Issue 3714, 19 May 1925, Page 74

An unusual case of illiteracy came under notice in the Arbitration Court recently (says the New Zealand Herald) —that of a New Zealand-born Caucasian, aged 49, who has never been to school, and who, consequently, can neither read nor write. A curious feature in the matter, however, is that this illiterate person is able to sign his name. It was explained that as he was required to sign his employer's pay-sheet every pay-day, and was sensitive on the question of exposing himself by making merely his mark, he had had himself schooled by a friend tracing his name. More than this, however, he was unable to do in the way of handwriting.

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