Song and story of the Māori. P280

Ngā Pao me ngā Pakiwaitara a te iwi Māori - Song and Story of the Māori.

Side 1. A programme of Cook Islands music, No.2
Ulric Williams introduces a second programme of songs by the Cook Islands Māori people.
First, a song of welcome sung by the pupils of Avarua School, Rarotonga.
The pupils also sing a chant called 'Patuku runga" [?] - a call to war.
Next, a song about the flowers of Rarotonga recorded in Wellington by a visting Cook Islands group.

Ulric Williams explains how he recorded the next song, performed by sixteen women outside the Ngatania [?] Community Centre in Rarotonga, The song is about the high chief Iro who lived in Rarotonga years ago.

Finally the Takitimu chant, a traditional chant used before battle which tells of the spears used in war and refers to the symbolic spear of Christiantiy. The singing is led by Piri Maoate [?], a man well known in The Cook Islands as member of the Legislative Council. [incomplete]

Side 2. None