Abstract
“The matter of this thesis embodies the results of many years study of the pronunciation of Englsih current in New Zealand, supplemented by special investigations in directions indicated below. The field of research is one that has hiterto been almost untoched. a few isolated remarks have been made from time to time by educational authorities and by critics at public elocution competitins, but these have referred mostly to more or less patent mispronunciations and vulgarisms.” [Extract from Explanatory Preface]