GOOD AND BAD WRITING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19628, 24 October 1933, Page 14

GOOD AND BAD WRITING

VHeWs OF EXAMINERS FOR POSITIONS. United Press Association—By Bsctrw T elagraph —Copyright LONDON, October 22. “Fifty per cent, of the public school boys, although highly expensively educated, fall In the banking examinations, because they cannot write decently," says Mr R. E. Ridout, examiner for the Bank of England. Other banks and business houses, who yearly examine 10,000 applications for positions, on the other hand, say that 65 per cent, of elementary and other school children are successful because taught to write. Unless public school masters realise the fact and teach legible handwriting, the elementary schools will win all the way In business. Nevertheless, according to Mr Ridout's definition, of good handwriting, ' hundreds of famous business men and politicians fall. The handwriting of Mr Gladstone, Mr Joseph Chamberlain, Mr Lloyd George and Signor Mussolini is all notoriously Illegible.