LATE LOCALS.
Seven only, Dainty Evening Frocks just opened at Addison’s to-day.—Advt.
A slight earthquake shock was felt in Reefton .on Sunday morning at 9.10 o’clock and another slight shock on Monday at 12.15 a.m.
“‘There is to-day throughout the whole of the British Empire a lack of fine speakers,” remarked the judge of elocution (Mr Clement May), Wellington, at the Christchurch competitions. “There are many otherwise able men who cannot express themselves” he added. “When one goes into the House of Commons to-day one wonders at the absence of those men of former times, those splendid orators who could drive their arguments home. , Where are they now? Is all this artificial speech and ‘canned music’ spoiling them? Very often a man misses success in a vocation because he cannot speak.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1930, Page 5
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