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Gum Leaves From Australia LONDON, Feh. 6. . 5 Links with what the British Broad-» casting Corporation customarily calls the "outposts of Empire" are provided in the Corporation 's Empire Depart* xnent by gum leaves from Sydney and tea from Colombo. The gum leaves are sent by a woman living at Bondi, who writes to the cor» poration each week sending photo* graphs and cuttings of all kinds. The tea was a ChTistmas gift, lOOlb^ from Ceylon. The radio staff had visions of raisins and currants from Australia, but these did not arrive. "I suppose you know best," wrote a man from Gibraltar, "but couldn't the BTitish Broadcasting Corporation occasionally use Spanish, or other foreign tongues for the benefit of those unfamiliar with Oxford Englisht" The corporation adheres closely to English. It' has occasionally given a speech in Afrikaans, the tongue of the. Cape Province of South Africa, which usilp.lly provokes fiery protests- from Englishmen.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 33, 23 February 1937, Page 3
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