WELLINGTON’S CARILLON
A LONDON BROADCAST
United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
ißeceived this day at 12.25. p.m.' LONDON, June 17.
A recital of Wellington’s war memorial carillon broadcast throughout the country was a great success. The even richness and variety <tf tone of the forty-nine bellstwas beautifully displayed by the recitalist, Clifford Hall, playing at Newcastle Exhibition, where the carillon is being shown prior to shipment to New Zealand.
The music included the Londonderry air hymn “ Now the Day is Over.” Sir James Parr in introducing the recital to listeners-in, recalled New Zealand’s war effort on behalf of the Empire, and emphasised the unique nature of the memorial, in the fact that the hells are inscribed Sonnne, Jutland, Gallipoli, and other battlefields where New Zealand’s seventeen thousand dead ho.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1929, Page 5
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