Radio For Tahitian Festivities
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Papeete, Feb. 15.
HPO accumulate funds for the colony’s * contribution to the memorial to Marshal Foch, now being erected at Paris, France, a soiree was held at Papeete’s Cinema Theatre on February 10, and field sports and horse racing at the race track on February 11. Both were under the presidency of His Excellency Monsieur Sautot, Governor of French Oceania.
The soiree consisted of native chorus singing and vaudeville by local amateurs of real talent. This was followed by dancing, which continued until sunrise.
At the racecourse our local radio in stalled (for the first time) an apparatus to broadcast the description of the races and the band music to listeners about Tahiti and on the distant islands of the colony. At the leper stations on Tahiti, and on the remote Tuamotu island of Reao, the Government has placed radio receiving sets which bring much pleasure to the unfortunates living there.
Mr. Raymond Penny, leader of the only jazz dance band on the Morobe gold field, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Montoro in mid-February.