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Sir-Mr. Fairburn suggests that attention must first be directed to the children. I thought this was being done already. His remarks brought to an incident which happened many years ago, when a small boy rushed home froth school, cheeks flushed and eyes blazing with indignation, "Mum, what do you think they are trying to make us do at school now?" "I’m sure I don’t know, son, you’d better tell me." "They are trying to make us talk like the Homies." Then forming his lips into a perfect "O" he recited, "How now, brown cow." Seeing no answering indignation in our eyes, he realised suddenly that we, his parents were from the Old Country. Immediately his indignation turned to pity, and consolingly he said to his father, "Never mind, Dad, it isn’t wager fault you're a
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(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 5
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140SPOKEN ENGLISH New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 5
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