MAORI CHOIR RETURNS
SEVER MONTHS' TOUR OF BRITAIN THE KING'S MESSAGE [Peh United Peksb Association.] AUCKLAND, May 12. After a 14 months’ tour of the Australiaa States and the British Isles, during which they were presented to and sang before the King and Queen, the Waiata Maori Choir returned to Auckland this morning from London by the Rotorua. . The members' spoke with'-enthusiasm of the success of the venture, the first they had undertaken, but all spoke of their unfeigned joy at seeing again native land.- < . : . The King expressed the wish that the choir should take back to New Zea-land-his love for his people,, both-pakehn and Maori. • ■, ■ , _ Similar sentiments were expressed by Lord Bledisloe and Mr Jordan. The choir left New Zealand in March, 1937, travelled from Australia yia Suez, and spent seven months in Britain.
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Evening Star, Issue 22955, 12 May 1938, Page 12
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135MAORI CHOIR RETURNS Evening Star, Issue 22955, 12 May 1938, Page 12
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