MAORI SONGS HEARD
ANTARCTIC PARTY LISTENS TO N.Z. FESTIVAL STORY OF THE NATIVE RACE BY RUSSELL OWEN Copyrighted. 1928, by the "New York Tunes company and the St. Louis "FostDispatch. All rights for publication teserved throughout the world. Wireless to the New York Times.” BAY OF WHALES, Friday. . TVe heard a Maori festival last evening in New Zealand as plainly as if we had been there, for it was broadcast from Wellington and reached us more clearly than any programme that has come through for a long time. It was so well done that we stayed awake from 11 p.m. until two o’clock in the morning, and were sorry when it was finished. It represented the history of the Maoris since their landing in New Zealand more than 900 years ago. and in song and story traced their tribal life, the coming of the English and the final peace between the two races on the common ground of British citizenship. The ancient songs of the Maoris, to the accompaniment of their primitive instruments and chants and dances, reached us perfectly, with all their wild rhythm. They have never had a more appreciative audience, even although it was an unseen one. We were all in bed, with only candles and a lantern burning, but for the time we seemed far away from the ice.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 9
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223MAORI SONGS HEARD Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 9
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