SCRIPT SIGNATURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1924, Page 3

SCRIPT SIGNATURES.

NO USE TO BANKS

AT CKLAND. June (i. Enquiry was made to-day in banking ireles regarding the use nf script writng for signatures, in view of a recent anagraph stating that the script signauro ol a juvenile depositor at a cottn-

.v savings bank was refused. It was

said that, although the child could write well in script, she bail not been | taught to write her signature in the , oritlnary style, and it took a week to do it. Not one ol the* bank ollieers questioned bail had script submitted in a signature, but it was admitted that there was a possibility of this experience coming to them with -o many children now being taught this system | of writing, it was stated that .several young women clerks in (lie hanks wrote in script, but they signed their names in the nrdinai v way. Alt olli'-er ol the Bust (Mice Savings Bank was asked : Would vnur tellers pay otti on a withdrawal slip signed in script "I should ,-a.v not." replied the oflirer. “What is a signature but something churnotcristie. which is recognised by it- characteristics. Script i- all ihe same, or almost so. 1 1 has no I characteristics. A .signature i.- a -erics of letters, each -eparated. and all script i- alike. There is no marked variation in the script written by any two persons, have nothing to say against •-oript writing. It is admirably plain, compared to some of the scrawls we see designated as handwriting. Iml even if the schools do teach children script, there seems to me to be no rea.-on why they should not also leach them to write I heir signatures."