MAORI BASS FAREWELLED
bass, who has broadcast from both 1YA and 1ZB, leaves shortly for England to study at Trinity College. The other evening he appeared in a concert, sponsored by the 1ZB Happiness Club, at the Auckland Town Hall, and sang to | = TE WIATA, the Maori
a packed audience. One of the most interested members of that audience vas James Lonergan, of Hamilton, who taught Wiata. Inia Te Wiata sang two groups of songs, which included Gounod’s She Alone Charmeth My Sadness, some ballads, and Maori songs, and a critic subsequently described his voice as of superb quality. Assisting him in some of his items, and also featuring in the programme, was the 1ZB Salon Orchestra, conducted by Reg Morgan; the 1ZB Happiness Club Cho:r, Jay Wilbur (in extemporisations), Gay Williams, the United Maori Church Choir, and members of.the Bettina Edwards and Bery} Nettleton ballet school. Hakas were led by J. Robb. At the end of the programme, Joan Sutherland, of the Happiness Club, presented Wiata with a casket containing some New Zealand soil, and the Mayor of Auckland (J. A. C. Allum) gave him a cheque with the best wishes of the organisers, 1ZB and 1YA, and the citizens of Auckland. The final item was by the audience which sang to Wiata the Maori song of farewell, Haere Ra. Part of the concert was broadcast,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 401, 28 February 1947, Page 12
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