11 JANUARY 1997, Page 24

Memo: copy to me

A SUPERB period memo from Barclays' head office about left-handedness in bank clerks is among the treasures unearthed by my Daft Memo Contest. Memos are the art-form of office life, too often taken for granted, sustaining a precarious half-life in a million pending trays. Look for them in such hotbeds of fatuity as e-mail messages and mission statements. Now they can serve a useful purpose, by winning you a magnum of Veuve Clicquot or a copy of The Dilbert Principle, the corporate anarchist's survival guide. Please keep them coming.