WORK FOR BLIND GIRL.
APPOINTED TO STATE POSITION. Uhlteu Press Association —By Elec trio Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 6. The first blind girl to be employed in a Government office is Miss Violet Harper, aged 20, of Beckenham. She has been appointed shorthand-typist at the office of works at Whitehall. She was educated by the National Institute for the Blind which presented her with a Braille shorthand machine upon which she is able to write at a speed exceed ng one hundred words per minute, after which her notes are transcribed on an ordinary typewriter.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18821, 9 March 1931, Page 7
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94WORK FOR BLIND GIRL. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18821, 9 March 1931, Page 7
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