THE BLIND
SHORTHAND-TYPING, . Per Press Association. . AUCKLAND; August 18. When -making a short speech at the Industries Exhibition, the Premier spoke ai> the rate of eighty words a minute for the benefit of a--student from the Blind Institute, who was working one of the shorthand type machines, invented for the use of blind persons. The boy man-, aged to take his report easily, and the reading of the notes was done entirely by the sense of touch. Sir Jospeh used several long words purposely to test the studeut, which were afterwards .repeated with accuracy and without 'hesitation. The Premier said that he hoped to see shorthand students from the. institute taking their place as - staopgraphers in commercial and professional housed •
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13676, 19 August 1908, Page 5
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