Flying-Officer Kingi Tahiwi
LTHOUGH we had known for A months that Kingi was "missing on air operations," we still hoped | that he would return and that some day we would again be hearing his voice on 2ZB’s breakfast session, Now his death has been "officially presumed," and New Zealand broadcasting has lost one who will not be easy to replace. Kingi joined the Commercial Broadcasting Service almost at its inception, and his voice had been heard at different times from all the ZB stations in practically every type of session. Who could forget his breakfast session with "Aggie" in the early days of 2ZB, or his lovely "Tales From the Forest of Tane"? We remember, too, his fine BBC broadcast a little before his last flight, which, though we heard it with pride, made us fear that London might induce him to remain after the war. One of my, most pleasant associations with Kingi was during the trip to Waitangi, when we broadcast the Centennial Celebrations. On this occasion he was not only an efficient broadcaster, but a most pleasant and interesting companion, and I especially recall the pleasure of the Maori people when he met them. Kingi will be sadly missed by those to whom he belonged, and somehow I think that this means just about all of us, for by the power of radio his voice was familiar in all our homes, and the sorrow of his relatives is shared by every
listener.
K.W.
K.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 215, 6 August 1943, Page 9
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247Flying-Officer Kingi Tahiwi New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 215, 6 August 1943, Page 9
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