They've Said It
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With Music
isman Empire Airways Ltd., had 21st birthday on April 30—and sent US a present. i a 7 in. extended-play record ailed Songs of the South Seas— the sort of disc most tourists d like to take back home as a -nir of their visit along the TEAL e disc has three songs on one two on the other and each rep ts a country where TEAL s go. r Tahiti the song Patu Patu Ahe een chosen; Pokarekare for New nd; Minoi Minoi for Samoa; ei for Fiji and Waltzing Matilda Australia. e songs chosen to represent Fiji, alia and New Zealand are all mown; the Tahitian and Samoan ers not so much so outside those Is. Both are love songs; Tahiti’s Patu Ake, recorded by Eddie and a Tahitian group, is a quick ), bright number; Samoa’s Minoi, in slower tempo, is by a typical Samoan group, AL’s gift records have been re l by Astor but the same disc will eased for public sale under the label. The attractive jacket on is the striking drawing of a esian girl bathing that has y been round the world as a famous TEAL travel poster.
general manager, F. A. Reeves, cuts [?]AL's 21st birthday cake in Auckland.