Radio welcomes The Americans
MMEDIATELY on the arrival of the American troops in New Zealand, the Commercial Broadcasting Service prepared a full hour’s programme of welcome. It was broadcast last Sunday evening, December 6, from all ZB stations. The programme began with a Maori welcome, a quotation from an ancient Maori chant usually invoked after a hard won battle. Here is a translation: "Greetings to you all. Welcome! thrice welcome the Braves. Come! bring me life-giving waters (assurance of victory). Wakeful have been my slumbers at night. Now I see bright day." But there were greetings from all kinds of New Zealanders to all kinds of Americans-from California, from Michigan, from Massachusetts, from Illinois and from many other States. They were welcomed by a "cross section" of the New Zealand public: a soldier, a telephone operator, a tram conductress, a policeman, a shopkeeper, and a_ schoolboy. The programme was not exclusively a welcome from New Zealand. The compére, Bryan O’Brien, also interviewed American servicemen in the studio and we heard what they had to say about us. We heard also "America the Beautiful" (sung by Ena Rapley), and "The Star Spangled Banner" as well as "Wai- ata Poi" played by the Band of the R.N.Z.A.F., and last but certaintly not least, some of the radio talent among the Marines, concluding with "The Marines Hymn," played by the Marines’ Band,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 181, 11 December 1942, Page 5
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229Radio welcomes The Americans New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 181, 11 December 1942, Page 5
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