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SUPREME COURT

PURITY OF SPEECH

STUART v. TWINER CASE.

HOKiTIKA COUNSEL APPEARS

(Per Press Association — Copyright.)

. WELLINGTON, .August 24. • At the. Supreme Court at Wellington this day, T the action Stuart v.. Twiuer was, heard before Mr. Justice Reed, who decided that the n,on-disclosure by defendants of a railway department proclamation, affecting the property .sold, constituted a, vital defect of title, .and entitled Stuart to. ' rescind the contract. . .« , Judgment was given in favour of Stuart for the. return.,,of, deposits paid, and costs. Counsel appearing were from 'Hokitika and Wellington,, a« the decision affects a number of similar contracts.

I MENACE OF AMERICANISMS.

; TWA NO IN THE T|ALKIES

(Per Press Association— Copyright.)

WELLINGTON, August 23

!“We fear the menace of the American talkies,” said Mr Byron Brown in • opening Jhe festival l oi tire Wellington Competition Society at the Town Hal’. ..0,-,i Saturday evening. ‘We were frightened that English was to be lost .to the world,, but I want to say this that 1 have tqftyelled all over the world, , and there.-..n0 place where purer English is thianJftpour ojwn New Zealand, purer in some parts of theflpld pountry. ..We won’t stand the American ■ talkies, with., the horrible of American -speech, f which imurderfi our beautiful language. And t;heir ’jviaices —the only thing T can compare i .them to is the, gritty noise «,f a/rasping -saw. . . 'T used Unlike Mary Pickford on the screen,’'. continued Mr 'Brown. “She was always charming', and enticing, so that when the talkies came, and she rwas announced to have a goden. voice, I had to go and see her. But when the first''sentences came —‘I guess, it’s .tamable,!- spoken with a nasal twang, I thought it best to give them up. 'With : that sprit of thing, to contend withy-,we simply have tpy-kpep si€ i>onipe6itions : 'flag •flying, and I.- hope that during 1 the next fortnight there will, be bumper houses to help u* along." ,- , ' '

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1932, Page 6

Word count
Tapeke kupu
318

SUPREME COURT PURITY OF SPEECH Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1932, Page 6

SUPREME COURT PURITY OF SPEECH Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1932, Page 6

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