BLIND GIRL'S FEAT
BRISBANE, Jan. 24. A blind girl was among those who passed the Queensland Junior public examination, the results of which were announced yesterday. She is Kathleen Mercy Griffin, 15, the daughter of a Rockhampton railway official. She lost her sight in an attack of meningitis when she was six years old. Miss Griffin gained three first-class, three secondclass, and three third-class passes in nine subjects for which she sat. These were English, French, Latin, English history, geography, algebra, arithmetic, geome'try, and physiology.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18622, 5 February 1935, Page 7
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85BLIND GIRL'S FEAT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18622, 5 February 1935, Page 7
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