Song and story of the Māori. Guide Kiri's Party. No.2. P/343 ; Song and story of the Māori. Miscellaneous. No.2. P/344

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1956
Reference
182548
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Year
1956
Reference
182548
Media type
Audio
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Series
D series, ca. 1935-1950s.
Categories
Māori radio programs
Radio programs
Sound recordings
Duration
00:27:59
Broadcast Date
19 Dec 1956
Credits
RNZ Collection
New Zealand Broadcasting Service (estab. 1946, closed 1962), Broadcaster
Williams, Ulric, 1910-2008, Narrator

Side 1.
Ulric Williams introduces the programme 'Guide Kiri's Party of Rotorua' No.2 opening with 'Nau Wai E Nga Iwi' recorded at the Regent Theatre at a concert to entertain the Springboks during their rugby tour in 1956. The following item is an unaccompanied choral song 'Moe Mai E Hine' and an action song 'Haere Mai Ra' (another song of greeting). Two girls of the group Lettie and Kahu sing a plaintive Māori song and 'a gay modern number' with guitar accompaniment'.
Ulric Williams signs off with the theme tune.

Side 2.
Ulric Williams introduces the programme of miscellaneous Māori songs opening with an action song 'Haere Mai Tuhourangi' performed by Guide Kiri's Party of Rotorua recorded from a concert in 1956.
The Putiki Youth Club of Wanganui sing hymn No.8 from the Māori Hymn Book (based on Psalm 121, Verse 3), 'He will not suffer thy foot to be moved and he doth keepeth thee will not sleep.
An action song 'Te Wiwi Ngāti' about the young people of Ngāti Porou of the East Coast and from the Cook Islands, a Rarotongan love song 'Tipi Tipi' (a good accompaniment to a Cook Islands hula).
To close the programme, a song called 'Te Ika-a-Māui' (or the fish of Māui), as Williams describes it "something in the nature of an invocation asking for divine blessings to fall on New Zealand and the Chatham Islands".
Ulric Williams signs off with them tune.