TYPING CHAMPION

Taupo Times, Volume 20, Issue 7, 28 January 1971, Page 1

TYPING CHAMPION

A Whangarei typist, Miss L. A. Postgate, won the open speed typewriting championship in the 1970 Chamber of Commerce commercial education examinations. She grossed 103.5 words a minute for a net speed of 98.9 words, six and a half words better than the second place-getter. The junior section was won by Longburn College pupil Miss L. E. Hayward, whose net 75 words a minute took her to a narrow success. Numerous pupils of Taupo-nui-a-Tia College and Tongariro High School sat various subjects in the Chamber of Commerce examinations and the following passed : TONGARIRO H.S. K. D. Allan, bookkeeping, office practice, handwriting, English, arithmetic; S. N. Allen, arithmetic; L. H. Christy, handwriting; A. E. Clarkson, English, arithmetic; C. M. Deknegt, arithmetic; J. R. Formosa, bookkeep-

ing; Y. J. Formosa, office practice, handwriting; R. K. Martin, handwriting; R. J. Matthews, English, arithmetic; C. B. Poliio, handwriting, English; R. M. G. Smith, handwriting. TAUPO COLLEGE C. J. Adams, English; F. L. Adams, handwriting, arithmetic; G. R. Albert, handwriting; K. T. Avello, English; K. L. Barnes, English; B. W. Bathe, handwriting, arithmetic; D. G. Braddock, handwriting; G. L. Carroll, English, arithmetic; P. M. Dewes, handwriting; J. M. Graham, English; J. Hepi, handwriting; D. J. Hodgson, bookkeeping, English, arithmetic; J. S. Holmes, English; M. B. Howes, arithmetic; J. Jackson, English, arithmetic; M.Johnstone, handwriting, English; A;J. McLeod, arithmetic; C. A. Mercer, handwriting, English; L. E. Munro, handwriting; L. J. Newland, bookkeeping, English; A. I. Prime, handwriting, English; H.P Rameka, handwriting; H. F. Richards, bookkeeping; P. A. Richardson, bookkeeping, English; J. A. Robertson, English, arithmetic; S. M. Robertson, handwriting; M. Robinson, handwriting; R. J. Smith, handwriting; J. M. Staines, bookkeeping; K. L. StrodePenny, arithmetic; C. M. Titshall, handwriting; R. Twentyman, arithmetic; S. Twentyman, arithmetic; D. A. van Kol, handwriting; J. K. Wall, English; W. H. Wallace, handwriting; S. Williams, handwriting, English;' J Willis, handwriting.