PACIFIC FESTIVAL OF ARTS
I \ Z. Press Association WELLINGTON. Jan. 9 Staging more than 200 performances in six days at eight different venues, with performers from 18 different countries, is the task facing the organisers of the second South Pacific Festival of .Arts which will begin at Rotorua on March 6. The festival is said to be the largest cultural event held in New Zealand, with more than 900 performers of various kinds. The Cook Islands. Niue. Tonga. Western Samoa, the Tokelaus Islands. Hawaii. Tahiti, Tuvula (formerly the Ellice Islands). Easter Island. Guam, the Gilbert Islands, the New Hebrides. New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea. the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand itself will all be sending performers. The festival will be held in New Zealand as a result of an invitation by the late Mr Norman Kirk to the South Pacific Conference at Guam in 1973. and renewed by Mr W. E. Rowling at Rarotonga in 1974. The first festival was held in Fiji in 1972, when 22, countries took part.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34047, 10 January 1976, Page 2
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