“A GREAT ASSET”
VALUE OF THE MAORI Writing to the Government Publicity Officer (Mr. A. H. Messenger) from Mosman, Sydney, Mr Alfred Hill, the well-known composer, states that during his recent trip abroad he found that the Americans were especially interested in New Zealand and the Maoris. “Many were the inquiries about Maoriland.” adds the writer It is a pity the country has no representative in the United States of America, since the people there would visit it in greater numbers did they know more about it. There is no doubt that both in the United States of America and England, the Maoris are a great asset to New Zealand. - I lectured to the Seven Arts Club in San Francisco on Maori music; also in Minneapolis and St. Paul to the Lion’s Club, to fifty university professors and others. • While in Em-dand I visited Bournemouth and conducted Godfrey’s orchestra in mv Maori orchestral pieces, and in London bad several gramophone records made.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 8
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