Weird Music Would

Surprise Visitors

Prom our own correspondent

Mangaia, July.

tf this island were better known, it is y likely that musicians from all over the wide world would come here to observe (and analyse) the native songs of Mangaia.

These are set in no scale, key or tempo, are so un-European that their present day ascendancy over more enlightened formsi of musical expression is no compli ment to the standard of civilisation of the island.

There are tuneless, toneless Church hymns, interspersed with unpleasant gruntings.

These are repeated, grunt-for-grunt, every Sunday, in the same form, and are highly distasteful to listeners of any refinement. , , it is amazing that the LMS has done nothing to improve native taste.