W. PARKER (above), who reads the weekly news summary in Maori broadcast each Sunday night by 1YA, 2YA, and 2YH, works in the Education Department in Wellington, and has been translating and reading the Maori news regularly for the last three years. He comes from Ruatoria, and belongs to the Ngati Porou. Many modern words and phrases, particularly things like atomic bombs and jet-planes, present him with special difficulties, and he is often dissatisfied with his attempts to put them in Maori that flows smoothly. Sometimes he reads the news standing up, as in our photograph, and nowadays, he told "The Listener," he occasionally does it with his overcoat on, ready to make a dash for his bus home.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 33
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119W. PARKER (above), who reads the weekly news summary in Maori broadcast each Sunday night by 1YA, 2YA, and 2YH, works in the Education Department in Wellington, and has been translating and reading the Maori news regularly for the last three years. He comes from Ruatoria, and belongs to the Ngati Porou. Many modern words and phrases, particularly things like atomic bombs and jet-planes, present him with special difficulties, and he is often dissatisfied with his attempts to put them in Maori that flows smoothly. Sometimes he reads the news standing up, as in our photograph, and nowadays, he told "The Listener," he occasionally does it with his overcoat on, ready to make a dash for his bus home. New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 33
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