LACONIC INTERVIEW
“Please, Me Speak No English”
“Please, me speirk uo English,” was the laconic interview given to the Press by 12-year-old Erwin Lutlierus, an Estonian schoolboy who arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Rangitaue. He had travelled half-way round the world by himself to join his father, who settled in New Zealand some years ago. Though liis verbal utterances were necessarily few, young Erwin was stated to be by no means left out of the games and entertainments of shipboard life. Fellow-passengers said that he was a quiet lad. but none the less took a keen interest in all that was going on And was definitely one of the bright lads of the tourist-class community.
lie was met on arrival by bis father and was able to break his long silence with a flood of what, to lhe interested spectators in the Customs shed, was a quite incomprehensible jargon. In five minutes he made up for all that he had not said in the previous five weeks. “Ho lias been staying with bis sister in Estonia, finishing his studies at school,” explained Mr. Lutlierus. “He will still have to go to school again here. Yes, he is going to settle in New Zealand, for ever.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 72, 17 December 1938, Page 15
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206LACONIC INTERVIEW Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 72, 17 December 1938, Page 15
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