AUSTRALIAN NEWS
MUTILATION OF LANGUAGE. ' ENGLISH AS , SPOKEN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association., (Reed. 5.5 -p.m.) SYDNEY, April 23. The adjudicator at the Bathurst Eisteddfod severely criticises Australian educational methods. He says that 60 per cent, of the competitors spelled February "Febuary," 50 per cent., in speaking, turned out into "owt," now into "neow," down into "deown," and the vowel I into "Oi." Young students were not the worst offenders in vowel sounds. The adjudicator asks if teachers themselves axe not taught to speak properly how it can be expected that pure English will be spoken by their pupils. • TRAVELLERS' ASSOCIATION.' PERTH, April 23. The United Commercial Travellers' Conference decided that owing to the elimination of New Zealand the name of the institution shall bo altered to the United Commercial Travellers' Association of Australia. < THIRTEEN COALMINES IDLE. ' SYDNEY, April 23. Minor disputes have rendered idle 13 Northern collieries.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18692, 24 April 1924, Page 7
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