FOR OFFICE WORK

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 19

FOR OFFICE WORK

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

EXAMINATIONS

LIST OF RESULTS

Kesultg *of the examinations i-ecently held by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce in the subjects of shorthand, typewriting,, handwriting, and bookkeeping are announced as follow:— SHORTHAND. ' Speea. ... There were sixty-six entrants for the shorthand examination for speed, fifty-six of them gaining passes, as follows:— 140 Words Per Minute.—Pass with honours: Thelma Armitage. Pass: Beryl NY Downes, Eileen Headifen. 130 Words Per Minute.—Pass with honours: Kathleen Scholes. Pass with dis^ tinction: Elizabeth G. Campbell, Jean B. Tolley. 120 Words Per Minute.—Pass ivith honours, John Purvis, Freda Stott. Pass with distinction: Zoe Richardson, Alexandrina Sutherland. 110 Words Per Minute.—Pass -with distinction: Mary E. Cummings. Pass: Dorothy P. Fawekner, Evelyn M. Long, Eileen M. Marshall, Hilda Young. 100 Words Per Minute—Pass with honours: ElkeM. Morfee, Christina D. Waddell, Jessie'L. Wood, Katherine'M. Wood. PaBS with distinction: Dorothy Sherlaw. Pass: Margaret W. Cowan, Josie Doyle, Mabel L. Jones, Lucy Kindell, Alice M'Elveney, Mary B. Tricklebank, Ethel E. Walker. 90 Words Per Minute.—Pass with honours: Alice Thomson. Pass: Phyllis M. Borrows, Airini M. Mackay. . 80 Words Per Minute.—Pass with honours: Sheila M. Fitzgerald, Gladys M. Goslin, Clare Hathaway, Clarice M. Murray, Beta C. Saunders, Lydia M/ Williams. Pasa with distinction: Sybil.Baker, Kathleen A. Evans, Beatrice Harkness, Joyce I. Lambert, Doris F. Rogers. PassMinna Allis, David Bett; Sadie F. Conner, Khoda Denison, Hazel Gotlieb, Margaret S. Jenkinson, Gladys M. Key,' Sarah Lutzky, Helen M. Ombler, Berta H Prmce, EvaE. Stebbings, Eva G. Stewart, Nola D.Year, Winifred E.-Witcombq,

... ■'■ , Theory, Forty-seven, sat for the examination in the theory of shorthand. Forty-five secured passes'aa follow:—' : Pass with Honours: Aileen M'Crea, Jean B. Cochrane. Pass with distinction: Dora-.M. Hewitt, Mirie F.Pocknall, Phyllis M. Thompson, Ethel E. Walker. Pass: Zeala M. Affleck, Beryl K. Avkinstall,. Nancy P. Bell, Alice P. Churton M. Andrew Churton, Phyllis V. A. Clark, Henrietta Cochrane, Ithoda Denison, Jean L. Devery, Marjorie M. Donaldson, Florence Duncan, Mary H. Eastman, ■Breda M. Fernie, Marjnrie Flanagin, K. Gwendoline, B. Gray, Rachel H. Grindley, Annabel Goodwin, Marie G. Hickmott, E. R. Leonie Holes, Margaret S. Jenkinson.JDois Kelly, Gladys M. Key, Edith B. Kirke, H. Mary Laird, Kaie Lubransky, Phyllis M. M'Dowcll, 0. M. May M'Gavin, Joyce Nash, Catherine M. Peet, Bertha H. Prince, Kathleen Quirke, Louise A. Rodger, Bonnie Ross, Evelyn P Spiers, Jean D. P. Toms, Joyce M. Townhill, F. Grace Vickers, Christina D. Waddell, Marjorie C. Williams. •

TYPEWRITING. Senior. There were nine entrants for' the senior examinations in typewriting, the results being as follow:— Pass with Honours.—E. Zelda Eankine, Ada L. Elborn. Pass, with Distinction.—Elizabeth G. Campbell, Grace M. Scadden, Freda otStt, Jean B. .Tolley. Pass.—Charles E. Bilby, Mary B Tricklebank, Christina D. Waddell. "

Junior. There were fifty-two entrants for the junior examination, thirty-seven of whom secured passes as under:— Pasi with Honours.—Dorothy Sherlaw. Paw with Distinction.—Joyce I. Lambert, Gladys M. Goslin, Edith A. Hird Pass.—Sybil Baker, Xancy P. Bell, Violet Bevan, Phyllis M. Borrows, Henrietta Cochrane, Margaret W. Cowan, Roma M. Cox, Maty E. Cummings, Josie Doyle, Dorothy P. Fawekner, Annabel Goodwin Hazel Gotlieb, R. Gwen, B. Gray, Beatrice Harkness, E. R. Leonie Holes, Margaret

S. Jenkinson, Lois Kelly, Gladys M. Key, Lucy Kindell, Raie Lubransky, Airini M. ~, Jtackay, Alice M'llveney, Margaret Manji, h, Alice M, Morfee, Clarice M. Murray, Rita \ h. Owen, Mirie F. Pocknall, Betty H. Pur- .*' vis, Beta C. Saunders, Eva E. Stebbings, I) Ethel E. Walker, Winifred E. Witcombe, jj Jessie L. Wood. t HANDWRITING. ?; Forty-eight candidates sat for the hand- "" writing clasß, of whom the following '*[ twenty-three gained passes:— Pass with Distiaetion.—Phyllis M. Barrows. J Pass.—Zeala M. Affleck, Nancy P. Bell, i Violet Bevan, Charles K. Bilby, Sadie F. ' Conner,. Rhoda Denison, Grace E. Iggul- J den, Gordon E. Ironmonger, Margaret S. v( Jenkinson, Alick D. Kohn, H. Mary Laird, % C. M. May M'Gavin, Mavis M'Lean, John Yf T. Magurk, Alice M. Morfee, Dennis G. fcf Nicholas, William M." Stevenson, Ethel E. U, Walker, Alfred T. West, Marjorie C. Wil- W\ Hams, Jessie E. Wilson, Winifred E. Wit- (V" combe.. ' • W

BOOKKEEPING. : J Thei'& were sixty candidates for the | book-keeping examination, thirty securing ■] passes, as under:— i Pass with Honours.—lsabella S. F. D. X Campbell. s Pass with Distinction.—Alick D. Kohn, % Bernard W. Gasquoine, Keweua A. Ken- "I drick, Margaret W. Lamont, Doris E. U Lock, Peter A. M'Whannell, Alice M. Mor- \ fee, Victor Power, Dorothea A. Tees, C. j Alfred de Vere. v Pass.—Noel B. Armstrong, Zita M. \J Bates, Charles E. Bilby, Mary C. Elder, % Roderick J. C. Fraser, Beulah Fisher, Eon- "I aid D. Greenwood, Doris GriiTen, Frederick ! C. Hackett, Frederick E. Knight, Cath- • erine Lamont, Thomas Lock, Leslie C. Meyers, Edward C. Murphy, Irene Eayner, ) G. Martyn Renner, Alexander B. Robert- \ sou, Ronald W. Stockdale, Ruth Wylic. i

PRIZE LIST. i t| The following is the prize list:— ; I) Shorthand.—Thelma Armitage (MQ li w.p.m-.), 1; Kathleen Scholes (130 w.p.m.). % Typewriting.—E. Zelda Rankine, 1; Ada. V< Lilian Elborn, 2. ' ' ' Y> ■ Hapdwriting.—Phyllis Mabel Borrows.: T Bookkeeping.—lsabella S. F. Dixon * Campbell, 1 Alick Douglas Kohn, 2. • £ Special . Prizes.—Freda Stott (honours- ? shorthand 120, and distinction typewrit- / ing, sen.); Alice Margaret Morfee (hon- V purs shorthand 100 and distinction book- Il' keeping); Gladys, May Goslin (honours '•[{ shorthand 80, and .distinction typewriting v jun.); Dorothy Sherlaw (honours type- $ writing jun. and distinction shorthand J< 100); Elizabeth Graham Campbell (dis. Vf, tmetion shorthand 130 and distinction LV typewriting sen.); Jean Blyth Tolley (dis- T tinction shorthand 130 and distinction typewriting sen.); Joyce Irene Lambert (dis-- "" tinctiou shorthand 80 and distinction type- <ti writing jun.). HO Orders to be issued for books. jW