Voice Lifter

NZ Truth, Issue 1215, 14 March 1929, Page 6

Voice Lifter

[WHAT is the difference . between i"; .Chaiiey's aunt, and v Charley | Clarkson ? Well-r-one comes from Brazil, noted for nuts, while the other comes from Kaiapoi, noted for sriug rugs. Kaiapoi, however, cannot exclusively .claim C.C., for as a peregrinating civil servant, he has sojourned m many towns, including Greymouth m its wide and woolly days! Clarkson, like Sir Joseph Ward, is entitled to sign "P.M." after his name, but m his case it means that he is Kaiapoi's postmaster and the small 'town of fleece and flannel is well content that it should be so. i He has a voice; — a real grade "A" resonant ringing baritone, which has been well trained. It has been lifted up tin oratorio m both Dunedin and Wellington. . / And he uses his voice and musical technique foj^any cause that nee^ds assistance. Wherefore are' the folk of Kaiapoi well pleased m their P.M. • ,