SHORT-HAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2837, 2 March 1888, Page 3

SHORT-HAND.

Some interesting Facts, In connection with the recent notification which appeared in" Hansard," saying that owinsj to the unfortunate death oi'the reporter, Mr ' WAdams, wdio had taken the notes of it, Sir Harry Atkinson's speech could not be reproduced, the following extracts, from correspondence in the" Yeoman" will be of interest: -When the most abbreviated style is used, as is the case on Hansard, it is impossible for one . man to take up another's notes as a ! stranger and transcribe them with a ; feeling of accuracy. In some reporting galleries it is customary for young . plionographers to place themselves j under the professional reporter as i transcribers in order to study this very j branch, i.e., the most abbreviated form ! ofrepMjng, and even then they becomo '■ acqiwficd with only the style of the man tliey sit under, It's all very well i to read the correspondence of a friend or the phonographic works which are i published—that, any writer can do, of .' course,—but let him try his hand at the notes ol that Hansard report, give liini every chance, do not hurry him,

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