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Regional Geography
Peoples of the World-6
'Native Farmers of New Zealand'
RAYMOND FIRTH, Ph.D.
Last week Dr. Raymond Firth told you about a Polynesian people who live in a tropical climate, in the island of Tikopia. Today he is to speak about a section of this great Polynesian race, the Maoris, who live in a temperate climate in New Zealand, to which they came in canoes hundreds of years ago.
Today they are mainly dairy farmers.
Dr. Firth will tell you about their clothes, their food, their love of the land. He will discuss their tribal pride and the influence of their chiefs ; their native Dance ; their slight contact with the outside world and their friendliness nevertheless with Europeans.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Raymond Firth

Nature Study
Round the Countryside—6
' Rooks and Rookeries'
ERIC PARKER
Rooks are crows, but crows aren't rooks, and there's a world of difference. Both belong to the crow family, but so do magpies, jays, and ravens. Rooks are friends of the farmers, but crows are their enemies, for the first eat grubs that destroy the crops, while the true crow loves nothing better than eggs and chicks.
Though there are grey or hooded crows to be found in Britain, the crow more commonly seen in England is the black or carrion. And one of the things Mr. Eric Parker is going to point out to you today is that the black crow and the rook, that are so wide apart, are very much alike to look at. But true crows are unsociable birds and build isolated nests, whilst rooks, as you know, love crowds. They go about in crowds ; they nest in crowds ; at evening the sky may be black with them.
The same old nests ; perhaps a stick or two more. The same old colony in the same old tree. The same old cawing. It is of the benevolent rook and his massed family life you are to hear this afternoon.

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Parker
Unknown:
Mr. Eric Parker

under the direction of EDWARD J. DENT
Anthems sung by THE WIRELESS SINGERS and VOCAL OCTET
At the organ, BERKELEY MASON
Conductor, LESLIE WOODGATE
Chandos Anthem, 0 come let us sing
I. Sonata
2. Chorus : 0 come let us sing
3. Tenor solo : 0 come let us worship 4. Chorus : Glory and worship
Tenor : BRADBRIDGE WHITE
(This anthem will be concluded on Wednesday evening)

Actual and responsible Manager, M. WILLSON DISHER , of the above address
Now open for One Hour only
The performance will commence at eight o'clock with the very laughable farce of 'THE LOTTERY TICKET'
Scene : A Village
After which, at half-past eight o'clock, A grand pirated version of Dion Boucicault 's Military Spectacle in Three
Acts of 'THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW or Jessie Brown , the Highland Girl
Scenery in the Drama :
Act ist. Mrs. Campbell's Bungalow with distant view of Lucknow
Act 2nd. Interior of a Mosque near
Lucknow
Act 3rd. The Redan, a fort commanding a certain part of the City of Lucknow, with encampment of Rebel Sepoys in the distance
Realistic display of fireworks-The End.
During the evening, the Band, under the direction of Mr. Kneale Kelley , will execute the following pieces:
Song, I'm a Gent J. Stirling Coyne Song, Jessie's Dream
John Blockley
Incidental Music, Blue Beard
Michael Kelly
The Plays produced by Mr. Peter Creswell
Theatre Royal, Memory Lane' will be repeated in the Regional programme tomorrow night. See the 'article by M. Willson Disher on page 8.

Contributors

Unknown:
M. Willson Disher
Unknown:
Dion Boucicault
Unknown:
Jessie Brown
Unknown:
Mr. Kneale Kelley
Unknown:
J. Stirling Coyne
Produced By:
Mr. Peter Creswell
Unknown:
M. Willson Disher
Wormwood (a lawyer's clerk):
Mr. Richard Goolden
Mr Capias (a village lawyer):
Mr. Edgar K. Bruce
Charles (in love with Susan):
Mr. W. E. C. Jenkins
Mrs Corset (staymaker):
Miss Ethel Lodge
Susan (maid-of-all-work):
Miss Ann Trevor
Randal McGregor (of the Army, honourably in love with Mrs Campbell):
Mr Jack Lambert
Rev Mr Blount (a clergyman):
Mr. Arthur Keane
Cassady (a drummer):
Mr. D. Hay Petrie
Sweenie (a fifer):
Mr Alexander Wynne
The Rajah of Bithoor (a rebel):
Mr V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
Achmet (a spy of villainous character):
Mr. Harald Colonna
Mrs Campbell (a young widow, loved by Randall) ...:
Miss Jessie Winter
Jessie Brown (a Scotch girl):
Miss Molly Rankin
Alice (Mrs Campbell's sister, loved by Geordie):
Miss Patience Grandison
Mrs. Campbell's children : Charlie:
Master Billy Thatcher
Mrs. Campbell's children : Mary:
Miss Florence Woodgate

with SYLVIA LESLIE
HERMIONE GINGOLD
PATRICK WADDINGTON
(By permission of Sydney Carroll)
JOAN CARR
JACK CLEWES
HELEN HOWARD
Music by Jack Strachey
Additional numbers and sketches by various authors and composers
THE B.B.C. VARIETY ORCHESTRA under the direction of RONNIE MUNRO

Contributors

Unknown:
Sylvia Leslie
Unknown:
Hermione Gingold
Unknown:
Patrick Waddington
Unknown:
Joan Carr
Unknown:
Jack Clewes
Unknown:
Helen Howard
Music By:
Jack Strachey
Unknown:
Ronnie Munro

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