It was learned that Mr. George S. C. Chao, of the recording office of the legal department of the Municipal Council has taken out a patent with the Chungking Government for Chao's Chinese shorthand system.
Mr. Chao took three years to evolve his Chinese shorthand system which is now in use in the record-office of the Councils legal artment and which has been hailed as the first Chinese shorthand System. Today there are half-a dozen other systems extant.
Elimination of position writing -is one of the main features of Chao's shorthand system and also the discarding of the lineal system. Certain English shorthand systems wote incorporated by Mr. Chao to perfect his own system. His task was no easy one, owing to the complicity of Chinese characters.
Mr. Chao is a fixture at the recording office, having served with the Council as a court recorder for eight years. He is devoting his leisure hours to the study of law.
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