Here's a postcard from 'ukulele legend Ernest Ka'ai's tour of New Zealand in 1927. According to the National Library of New Zealand:
A night in Honolulu". Town Hall, Greytown. Tuesday November 22 [1927]
The troupe appears to have visited the Wellington area in November 1927. The Ephemera collection also contains a programme for a performance at Wellington in April 1925, but this postcard is 1927, based on a perpetual calendar."
Link to image.
Here's a link to the cover of a program from an earlier date at the Grand Opera House in Wellington.
Apparently Ka'ai spent quite a bit of time in NZ. Here he's quoted with regard to a 1911 tour. Link
And a portrait from the same year:
MR ERNEST KAAI.
Director of the Royal Hawaiian Concert and Musical Organisation,
and the finest .Mandolin and Ukulele player in the world.
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