BANKS COLLEGE,

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 14

BANKS COLLEGE,

Prizes and Certificates are Presented. ANNUAL BREAK-UP. The annual break-up of Banks Commercial College was held at the Jellicoe Hall last night. The prizes and certificates were presented by Miss E. A. Chapman, who congratulated Miss Archer, the principal, on the fine spirit she was imparting to the pupils. Mr J. Wyn-Irwin also spoke. Miss I. M. Archer, principal of the college, stated in her report that the year had been successful in every direction. Three girls (Bernice Gentles, Jessie Wilson and Hilda! Gribble) had been awarded the Ortler of Gregg - Artists’ Award in London examinations. In the public service examinations, thirty-two candidates had been presented, and all passed, securing first, second and third in both senior and junior sections. None of the pupils had been old enough to sit for the intermediate public service examination. The following is the prize list:— Expert short-hand-writer, gold medallist, highest marks in shorthand speed, 170 words per minute: Doris E. Price. Typewriting, gold medal for highest aggregate marks in typewritihg: Phyllis M. Goddard. Day students’ shorthand speed prize, highest speed first year day students, 130 words per minute: Phyllis Goddard. Mrs Irwin’s prize for general excellence: Morag M’Leod. First shorthand-typists’ transcription and letter composition test: Betty Hart. First Canterbury order of merit list, shorthafid theory examination: Beatrice R. Jarman. First North Canterbury order of merit list, first English and commercial correspondence: Phyllis Goddard. First North Canterbury, senior Public Service: Una Kissel. First Pitman writer, senior Public Service: Lyndsay Herrick. First Gregg writer, junior Public Service: Enid Gundy. Special honours, first junior Public Service 1925, first senior Public Service 1929, intermediate Public Service 1930, special Public Service 1931: Noeline Keetley. Honours List. Entrance examinations for shorthandtypists, November, 1931: Special, 150 words per minute: Miss N. M. Keetley (second for South Island), Miss D. E. Price (third for South Island). Senior—Misses U. D. Kissel (first for South Island), L. M. Herrick (second for South Island), J. M. Wilson third for South Island), P. M. Goddard (fifth for South Island), K. Paterson, E. J. Price, J. E. Potter, J. Boyes, R. D. Olliver. Junior—Misses P. M. Goddard (first for South Island), E. R. Gundy (second for South Island), M. E. Pegg (third for South Island), S. M. Banks (fifth for South Island), D. L. Herrick, J. Boyes, D. M. Haase, I. D. Brasell, A. B. Taylor, R. J. B. M'Cann, D. M. Cattell, G. J. Kerr, B. A. I. Hart, M. F. Dalziel, L. C. Johnstone, B. D. Brackenridge, M. C. Chambers, C. Banks, M. M. M’Leod, K. J. Tooth, A. G. Souter. Certificates. Gregg shorthand theory—B. R. Jarman 97, B. Brackenridge 96, M. Dalziel 95, M. M’Leod 94, I. Brasell 93, C. Banks 92, J. Boyes 89, E. Gundy 88, L. Johnstone 85, P. Franklin 84, K. Tooth 83, P. Washer 83, D. Cattell 82, E. Tinkler 82, J. Martin 82, M. Walker 82, R. Hamilton 82, E. Cade 82, N. Wood 81, I. Patterson 81, B. Dobier 80, N. E. Green SO. Shorthand speed examinations, 1931 — 170 words per minute, Doris E. Price; 120 words per minute, Jean Boyes; 110 words per minute, Betty A. I. Plart and Amy Taylor; 100 words per minute, Enid Gundy, Irene Brasell, Morag M’Leod and Bertha Brackenridge; SO words per minute, Lola Johnstone, Trixie Banks and Dorothy Cattell.

National Gregg Association (open to Gregg writers qualified to write at not less than 120 words per minute)—Portable typewriter to Doris E. Price.