PRINT WRITING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5105, 25 March 1927, Page 4

PRINT WRITING.

BUSINESS MEN’S OPINIONS.

NOT FAVOURED IN WANGANUI.

The general opinion of business and professional men in Wanganui is not very much in favour of the print system of writing. At a lecture given on Tuesday evening last the Hon. M. Cohen, M.L.C., stated that the new print style o'f writing was a direct incentive to forgery.

Chatting briefly with a bank manager a “Chronicle” man was not Long in forming the opinion that members ; f the profession were in strong opposition to the system. “Some of 'Mr inspectors have gone deeply into the question of print writing,” he said, “and they agree that there is an unlimited scope 'for forgery in printing which is narrowed down very much in the cursory system.” The banker also pointed put in passing that the standard of writing in primary schools bad not been of such a high standard during the past few years, as it was a decade ago. This particularly applied to figures.. “So far as commercial houses are concerned, the print writing will, be no good at all,” said a mercantile officer. “We are not looking forward to the day when the print writer will take his place on the clerk’s stool. Mr Cohen is certainly on the right lines in his agitation for a return to the cursory system.”