VISIT TO MALTA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1943, Page 4

VISIT TO MALTA

BY KIWI CONCERT PARTY.

MANY BRIGHT PROGRAMMES.

Since his arrival in New Zealand Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Fveybei'g has made special mention of the high standard of lhe Kiwi Concert Parly, a band of entertainers recruitoil from Die Second N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East and financed 1 by the National Patriotic Fund Board. The Kiwis have provided many bright programmes for I Ik.' men of the .New Zealand Division, and in March and April of lliis year they visited the battered island of Malta to give concerts there. A copy of lhe "Malta Review,” a weekly bulletin published by the Information Office. referring to a programme presented Inwards the end of March, for the civilian population of Malta, nays: “H seems certain that the ‘Kiwi Revue’ will become the classic concert parly of this war in much the ,'iaine way as did lhe ‘Rouges et Noirs,' the troupe which became famous in France mid 1 Flanders during the Great War. The general standard of the company Is fill' 100 high lo allow of individual nicill toll, bill it is impossible iml lo give a word of praise lo the hand. It war; superb, particularly during the interval with its rendering of 'ln the Mooil.’ . . . Malta is now

more deeply Ilian ever in the debt of her F,inplrc pai’lrier, since everyone mi this ipliiml recalls with gratitude the .-l ileii(l li I coilll'lhul ion, amounting to povhi'al ihiiiisandii of pounds, which the people of New Zealand have made to (lie Mhllh Relief Fund.”