SPEED CERTIFICATES GAINED BY PUPILS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19240, 29 November 1930, Page 14

SPEED CERTIFICATES GAINED BY PUPILS.

The secretary of the Christchurch Shorthand Writers’ Association has been advised by Pitman’s Examination Department, Melbourne, that the following pupils of Miss Digby’s Commercial School, Worcester Street. have been successful in gaining Pitman’s first-class speed .certificates in a shorthand examination held under the auspices of the association in October:— 160 words per minute, Winifred S. Sherris; 120 words per minute, Mavis Carter, Patricia Frame, Thelma Gluestein, Florence Turg.is; 100 words per minute, Rachel Barnett, Thora Burke,. Frances Dick, Hazel Greaves, Winifred Slade; 80 words per minute, Margery Alexandre, Mollie Dryden. Eileen Gifkins, Marian C. Miller, Betty Nelson, Jein Reid, Daphne Stewart, Grace Thomas, Margaret Wilson, Marjorie Wood; 70 words per minute, Kathleen Archer, Margaret L. Moore. Beatrice Reid, Stella Rich, Rewa Rowland, Ellen D. White, Rosie Williams; 60 words per minute, Gwen Barrow, Jessie Maxwell, Florence Phillips, Valma M. Wood. The association’s certificate was also awarded to the following writers of Gregg shorthand:—Ninety words per minute, Una Bullock; 80 words per minute, Trixie Lonquet; 60 words per minute, Mary Aitchison, Margaret Lewis.