During his recent tour of the East. Mr T. Collins, of Feilding, experienced difficulty at times in making the English language understood, but in most places the English visitor was well catered for, and the natives were patient in the extreme in trying to pick up meanings. Mr Collins told the Palmerston North Rotary Club in the course of an address. “One business man in a tourist centre was more enterprising than the others,” Mr Collins added. He had displayed outside his door a poster on which was written: ‘English spoken here, Australian also understood’.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1938, Page 4
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