Good Evening, The Consul General Mr. & Mrs. Ma Chong Ren, Misister of the Ethnic Affairs Hon. Chris Carter, Chairman of the Auckland Regional Council Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lee, Member of Parliament Mrs. Pansy Wong , Mr. Sammy Wong , Member of Parliament Mr. Kenneth Wang, The Leader of Community, Distinguished guest, Ladies and Gentlemen and Children:

Being the Organizer for this concert, NZ Guangdong Association is very proud to see so many of you here for this evening.

As part of NZ and Australia tour, we are very honoured and privileged to have invited this internationally renowned Yip’s children choir to our country the choir was formed by master musician Dr. Wai Hong Yip and his daughter Sincere.

Being Chinese, we are very proud of her dedication and achievements, 12 years ago, Dr yip led his choir to the clean green NZ and 12 years later tonight, we here in Auckland and being given another opportunity to enjoy the new generation of Yip’s Children Choir.

We acknowledge and appreciate their continual dedication of nurturing young talents and their contribution to the music world.

Lastly, I can see people there are impatiently waiting for the show to start, my committee and I would like to acknowledge the generous support given these sponsors for this event and also, I would like to acknowledge the hard work and efforts given by members of the association and the volunteers over the past month. Your commitment is making a huge difference to the success of this concert.

It makes our life so much easy by having your contribution.

Thank you and enjoy the Evening.