Kiwi

The Music, Voices and Sounds of New Zealand. Established as an offshoot of publisher A.H. & A.W. Reed in 1957 to support the company's Maori language, physical education and folk-dancing school texts, Kiwi later expanded into folk, classical and pacific sounds plus a range of hugely successful albums of bird noises and trains. Kiwi was operated in the 1960s and early 1970s by Kiwi Records (5), a division of A.H. & A.W. Reed, and then in the 1970s by Reed Pacific Records Ltd, until bought in 1977 by Kiwi Pacific Records Ltd.. This profile also incorporates entries for "Kiwi Records", a logo variant which was briefly used in the 1960s and early 1970s (see this image; not to be confused with the company Kiwi Records (5)).