London Linguist Visits
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Prom Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, BSI, November 1.
MR. GEORGE MILNER, of the School of African and Oriental languages, London University, arrived in the Protectorate on October 19 to spend about six months studying the languages of the Solomon Islands. He has sound recording equipment to record the speech of various districts.
Mr. Milner has begun his operations in the Western Solomons, where his methods and equipment are rousing great interest among natives. In Gizo he recorded two speeches of introduction, one in pidgin English made by the District Commis sioner of the Western distridt (Mr. R.
Davies) and the other, in Rovlana language by a Government clerk. Both explain the purposes of Mr. Milner’s Wes tern tour.