QUICKEST TYPISTS.
ENGLISH GIRL'S WIN,
PARIS, Nov. ,17.—Mile. Odette .Piau, secretary to M. Albert Thomas, director of the International Labor Bureau attached to the League of Nations at Geneva, won her third European typewriting championship in Paris last night. Mile. Piau struck the keys of her typewriter 407 S times in live minutes, or 13| times a second.
An English girl, Miss E, Mitchell, who beat Mile. Piau in the speed test because she made fewer mistakes, struck the keys 40G0 times in five mi mites.
Miss Mitchell vvroto many more words than her French rival because sho chose a sentence composed of the shortest words possible, namely. "It is tho duty of a man to do mo a turn, and, if he can, he is to do one."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16921, 30 December 1925, Page 12
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