“Pronunciation of Maori words, beautiful in Ihe mouths of the initiated, are grotesque in the attempts of those who are unnaware of the live chief rules governing Maori vowels sounds,” said Air. Farquhar Young, elocution judge at the Unworn competitions, the other night (reports the "Taranaki Herald”). He had found Italians best able to pronounce at sight Maori words. After travelling on the railways and passing beautiful examples of the native words, he had discovered guards committed atrocious blunders when calling mimes of stations. He suggested I hey should be obliged to pass a 'test before being allowed to call the names of stations.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 287, 4 September 1928, Page 6
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