Get Ready for Maori Pageant on February 6

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 27 January 1928, Page 5

Get Ready for Maori Pageant on February 6

KEEN INTEREST BEING TAKEN IN MEMORABLE EVENING. Advices received from many quartersindicate that keen anticipation is being directed towards the evenings of February 6 and 7, when the Maori Radio Pageant descriptive of the full life of the Maoris in New Zealand will be given in six phases. We hear on all sides of parties being arranged to listen at friends’ houses, and we know of one enterprising country dealer who has hired a hall for the purpose of giving the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. The success which met the previous broadcast of Maori songs and voices-that from Otaki College-assures listeners of an evening of outstanding delight. There will be solid backing of history and literary knowledge on this evening which will, we assure listeners, be memorable indeed. The programme on February 6 will extend from 8 p.m. to 10.30 p.m., and on February 7 will be repeated, starting at 11 p.m. and continuing till 1.30 a.m. for the ‘special benefit of overseas listeners. We understand there is a likelihood of some Australian stations rebroadcasting the programme, the start of which corresponds with 8.30 p.m. Sydney time. New Zealand residents in Australia will thus receive an unexpected contact with their homeland, while the Dominion as a whole will be brought prominently and interestingly before the Australian and Oceanic publ? Our issue of next week, February 3, will contain full details of the programme, and in addition special photographs and letterpress relative to the evening. The issue will be of a souvenir character, for which we anticipate an extra demand. Orders for extra copies that may be required should be placed early. Some of the photographs that will be used are especially historic and comprehensive.