Denaby Main Technical Class

At a meeting held at the Denaby Main Institute on Monday Night last, the distribution took place of prizes given in connection with the Denaby Main Technical class by Mr W H Chambers, chairman of the class. The secretary Mr Hill, in asking M Chambers to make the presentations said he thought that both Mr Wainwright (the teacher) and pupils were to be congratulated in the results which had attended the class and the latter on receiving book prizes of so useful and valuable a nature.

Mr Chambers said he was pleased to see that some young men in and around Denaby had availed themselves of the opportunity of learning the art of shorthand, which was nowadays a most useful and a very necessary branch of learning. He said that a knowledge of shorthand was of the greatest value to those employed in commercial life, and he regretted that he had not had such facilities for learning it when he was as young as they had.

He jocularly remarked that he had all his correspondence to do in longhand and sometimes wrote what he could not read. He expected they could do the same in shorthand. (laughter)

Continuing he hoped that all who had that all who had been successful in obtaining prizes would continue their studies, and also others to study shorthand and not let the knowledge thy had already gained slip from them. The books which the secretary had got them were well worth striving for , ad the ha a capable instructor in Mr Wainwright, who had devote his spare time for their benefit, and had done his work conscientiously and well.

He must not forget the secretary, to whom the greater credit was due for his unfailing energy to make the classes successful, as it was chiefly due to his efforts that they had been able to offer prizes.

The prizes were then distributed to the value of £1 10s 6d as follows:

Shorthand Dictionary (new edition) to John Rose (Denaby); Wm White (Mexborough), G H Jenkinson (Conisborough) and Albert \Norborne (Conisborough)

“Bookkeeping Simplified “by Mr Mitchell (just out) to

D Poynton, Albert Hoyes /J W Hartley (Mexborough) and W Hill (Denaby)

The books were inscribed “Presented to _____ by the committee f the Denby Main Technical Class on his successful passing the the elementary stage o pitman’s Shorthand at an examination held by the West Riding Council on April 14^th 1897