VISIT TO MALTA
MADE BY KIWI CONCERT 4 PARTY. WORK OF NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS. (N.Z.E.F. Official News Service). JERUSALEM, March 23. No greater tribute has been paid to the Kiwi Concert Party than this week when its members flew to Malta to entertain the troops there. They were the first New Zealand soldiers to set foot on Malta. ‘ Sapper Kenneth Turner, Auckland, received high praise from the judges and the Press critics reviewing the exhibition by service artists in Cairo. Captain Peter Mclntyre, official New Zealand war artist, holds his third Cairo exhibition this week with 30 paintings. He recently travelled hundreds of miles across the Sahara with the New Zealand Long-Range Desert Group. “Ruweisat Ridge at the time preceding the Alamein action could hardly be described as an ideal place for song writing, but a cable from the 8.8. C. advised Sergeant A. C. Dawson of the success of a song he composed in a slit trench during a lull at El Alamein. Writing it on the blank side of a discarded Italian routine orders sheet, the only paper available, he entitled it “Fighting for our Homeland.” Considering it to have possibilities, he sent it to the 8.8. C., which has now cabled for the broadcasting rights.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 March 1943, Page 3
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