Hi? the New Zealand hoy an accent? Mr. J. P. Firth, principal of the Wellington Boy’s College, says he has. “I know,” he said, at the educational con. ferc-r.ee, “that New Zealand writers in Home papers and magazines have said that the New Zealand boy has no accent. These writers do not know what thev are talking about. People who say that the New Zealand boy has not got an accent—that lie speaks English as it should be. spoken—have a want of knowledge. The tendency is not towards improvement, but rather the reverse.” A seven weeks cruise is in store for the sixty odd lads of the Government; training ship Amokura, which left Wellington the other day for Timaru and Bluff, en route to the outlying islands of New Zealand. 'Search will he made on the outlying , groups for wreckage or castaways, and provision stores will bo replenished where necessary. On her return to Bluff, the training slnp will go to the Dusky Sound, and endeo vor to locate the rock where the Wrukare camo to grief. l ■
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2743, 23 February 1910, Page 6
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178Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2743, 23 February 1910, Page 6
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