MAORI ENTERTAINERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 822, 16 November 1929, Page 13

MAORI ENTERTAINERS

CITY TO HEAR MISSION PARTIES Maori music and oratory, interpreted by tribal representatives from North Auckland to Otago, will comprise a true Polynesian entertainment arranged by the Methodist Maori Mission for presentation in the Town Hall on Monday, November 25. One object j of the concert will be to illustrate the j work of the Methodist Church among ! Maoris. Karanga (calls), waiata (songs). ■ Stone Age games, tititoreato (stick games) matemate (sign games), ! choruses, liakas, poi dancing, and instrumental items form a varied pro- ; gramme to be given by two mission parties which are concluding tours of New Zealand. Before the actual enter- | tainment, community singing, at which ! tho Rev. A. J. Seamer, superintendent i of the mission, will b 8 chairman, will i be conducted. The entertainment will open with a Maori welcome by Auck- | land natives. Other main items will be poi dances by girls from every ! province of the Dominion, the ancient ; long-stringed poi, the canoe poi. hakas by selected parties, and choruses : by the entertainers. Among the soloists will be Paikea Toka (North Auckland), Te Aho-o-tc-Rangi Pihama (Waikato), IE Wanairangi (Taranaki), Wi Perahama ; (Manawatu), Hinerangi Hikurangi 1 (Ratana, Wanganui), Taka Ropata and I Wiremu Tainui (Canterbury), Hone i Wereta (Wellington), and Mori Lri- > hana (Otago). One of the choruses I will be by the students of Wesley College, Paerata.