NEWS IN MAORI
Sir,-I note with pleasure that the Maori News Summary on Sunday evens ings is being extended. This extension is appreciated by those who listen ih regularly and by those who also appreciate the fine efforts of the announcer in speaking such correct classical Maori. May I, however, offer a suggéstion in connection with this new session. The NBS has in its possession" some hundreds of Maori chants and songs which Sir Apirana Ngata has only recently been annotating. Could not some of these very beautiful waiata and patere be incorporated in the Sunday evening broadcasts? Most scholars of the Maori people will readily agree that Maori oratory and Maori music are v Sly allied; in many cases it is speak of one without referring; to" in other. Such a suggestion, if adopted, "would conform mote to Maori custom than present arrangements, and would, in my humble opinion," be more acceptable to Maori listeners, whatever their tribal
affiliations may be. —
J. B.
PALMER
(Petone).
(Similar letters have been written by other ' correspondents.-Ed. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 5
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174NEWS IN MAORI New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 5
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