MAORI RECORDS.
COLUMBIA GRAMOPHONE CO.'S INVESTIGATIONS. [THB PBBSS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, February 11. The possibility of making # Maori records at Botorua is to be investigated by Mr W. A. Donner, managing director of the Columbia Gramophone Co., Ltd., of Australia, who arrired a* Auckland from Sydney by the Marama to-day. . ~ / "New Zealand is an excellent market for gramophone records of all descriptions, particularly for the better class discs and classical recordings" he said. "The standard.. of musical appreciation in the Dominion is probably a little higher than it is m Australia. Naturally, we prefer to make the better class of rec»rto,.BO* only because they help to «•«*• m " \ terest in good music, but also -because they meet with a steady demand. The demand for lighter records and danee numbers varies exceedingly, for w> sooner does one tune win pabne faYjwr than another comes along to displace it" Mr Donner will.be in JUnr iMiafd for about a month- If tho chsawes •* Maori records at Kotorua s4» ? f*vX»or able a portable recording puat wMI probably be sent over from Australia later in the year.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19851, 12 February 1930, Page 9
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