HAMILTON SINGER
“DESTINED FOR WORLD RENOWN” The mayor of Hamilton, Mr H. D. C&ro, thinks that New Zealand has produced a singer destined for world renown. He said so recently about the Hamilton singer, Inia Te Wiata, whom the New Zealand Government is sending to London for a course of three years at the Royal Academy of Music. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Parry, also thinks highly of him. Mr Parry first heard him sing at a celebration on the occasion of Hamilton becoming a city a year ago and arranged for him to go overseas. Three or four months ago Mr Parry asked the organiser of the National Symphony Orchestra, Mr Anderson Tyrer, to give the young man an audition and as a result Mr Tyrer wrote to the Minister saying that Mr Te Wiata had the finest natural voice he had ever heard. Another tribute came from a fellow artist, Mr J. T. Battersby, of Hamilton, who said: “He has a voice of magnificent texture; but perhaps an equally strong point is his nobility of character.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 70, 8 January 1947, Page 7
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179HAMILTON SINGER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 70, 8 January 1947, Page 7
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