“FOREIGN LANGUAGE”
TALKIES ATTACKED PURE SPEECH PROBLEM “Cannot the Department be asked to approach the censor regarding the banning of American talking pictures as far as young children are concerned?” asked Mr. H. S. AV. King at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board this morning. A memorandum had been received from the Education Department, in reply to a recent resolution of the Auckland School Committees* Association, stating that the Department doubtqd if it could influence to any appreciable extent the quality of the pictures shown at matinee performances. “I don’t think the censor has any power in this way,” said the chairman, Mr. A. Burns. "It is merely a question of language.” “It is a foreign language,” asserted Mr. King, who held that children should hear English alone at the talkies. Mr. Burns pointed out that Americans had the right to talk as they wished.
“They shouldn’t bo allowed to influence the speech of our children and teach their expression,” said Mr. King. The letter was received.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 977, 21 May 1930, Page 12
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