Newsletter from the Islands. 1954-10-14.

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Year
1954
Reference
35516
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1954
Reference
35516
Media type
Audio
Series
D series, ca. 1935-1950s.
Categories
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio programs
Sound recordings
Duration
00:12:01
Credits
RNZ Collection
Challis, Robert Lye, 1903-1980, Speaker/Kaikōrero
1YA (Radio station : Auckland, N.Z.), Broadcaster

Robert Challis [London Missionary Society and Pacific Island community worker in Auckland] gives news, mainly in English, of young Pacific island people living in New Zealand. [His talk was recorded at 1YA Auckland and presumably was for broadcast via shortwave to the Pacific.]

He sends initial greetings in Niuean, Samoan and Cook Island Māori. [Many Pacific Island residents are mentioned in this recording but the names are not yet transcribed or verified.]

He talks of recently visiting Tokoroa and meeting with people from Aitutaki who are living there, including Turia Turia [?] and people from the village of Tautu, where a new church is soon to open. He sends greetings in Cook Island Māori.

He also visited Mangakino and met Mr Papali'i [?] from Apia who sends greetings to his father. He sends greetings from some other Samoan men who are living in Mangakino.

He says in Rotorua he stayed with Suzanne Witchman [?] and met some more Cook Island people there who also send love to people back home.

He gives accounts of hospital visits to several people and sends greetings from them. Tauese Tama in Middlemore Hospital sends greetings to her mother in Samoa.

Last week three representatives went from Auckland to Dunedin to represent the Island people. He mentions Pacific people who have recently bought their own homes in New Zealand, whom he has visited.