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Spastic Wins Award For Speech

(New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI, Dec. 9.

Mr Garry Butler, a severely handicapped spastic, this week won the Wanganui Junior Chamber’s Harris Cup for a prepared speech. Mr Butler, who is 26, is confined to a wheel chair. He is hesitant in his daily speech but long hours of training gave him. a wellmerited win over good competition.

The president (Mr John Souter) said today, “He certainly didn’t get the decision on the sympathy vote.”

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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29384, 10 December 1960, Page 4

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Spastic Wins Award For Speech Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29384, 10 December 1960, Page 4

Spastic Wins Award For Speech Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29384, 10 December 1960, Page 4