NEGLECTED PENMANSHIP

Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1932, Page 15

NEGLECTED PENMANSHIP

YOUNG PEOPLE’S WRITING.

INCREASING USE OF SCRIPT.

Some advice to young people entering on a commercial career was given by the president of the Canterbury Chamber of commerce, Mr. A. O. Wilkinson, and Mr. J. Mae Gibbon, Christchurch manager of the Bank of New Zealand, last week when the certificates won in tlie commercial examinations held under the auspices of the chamber last December were presented to about a hundred successful students. Mr. Wilkinson expressed regret that there were not more entries in the handwriting section and remarked that he deplored the increasing use of script writings by young people taking up a business career. Mr. Mae Gibbon also commented on the handwriting that was met with every dav. He said that when applications for positions were received from people educated in the Old Country the handwriting’ was invariably good. “I am sorry 1 cannot say the same of the young people educated here,” he. continued. “Their handwriting is invariably bad.” The syllabus of the schools he knew was crammed full with other subjects and such thing? as handwriting were very often neglected. But for young people takiim up a commercial career it was a very important subject. As to English, Mr. Mae Gibbon said he would commend to them a much neglected book—the Bible; and, next to that, Shakespeare. Reading the Bible gave a special fluency of expression. The banks, he added, paid fees for the tuition of their staff's in subjects of use and this money was amply repaid. The men who studied for the banks’ certificates were much the more efficient.