A BAND ROTUNDA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 144, 20 June 1899, Page 2

A BAND ROTUNDA.

(To the Editor.) ' Sir,—Now tlxat some of our citize^ have sums of money to spare, fjpjft are prepared to spend come of it iil our city parks, I respectfully Bs§ you to publish the enclosed shfiiti

letter, which. I sincerely hope ma act as a very strong incentive *~w those of us who can and will ttnt

their shoulders to the wheel to pWM fi I cure a similar band-stand for Albert i Park. I may say here it ifr usu&l I in Welling-ton in fine weather to have' I one or more of their best bands play*' I ing either at the Basin Reserve Qtiji on their Esplanade at the ThornflOtt* I end of their city. I have 6een t&tifi*/ sands of people on a Sunday a(£ttsr-k noon, listening to this two hour? • entertainment, all of whom were w^behaved, and. went home eeenrifl^ well pleased, ' We all know that our enesrgetio^ worthy Mayor has his hands veryjfyH. just now, and yet I. believe and-NPe' I if he had a promise of subs*n^a'.' and reliable aid that we migrate in the near future an orname^l and. useful band-stand, which Vj™ J£'/ a credit to the Park an/.* 0 **j* I donors, whose names ■ shonV."**~W" ■'' thereon, as on the seats, hf> prODriß- > ent place. £ i i If we can get this {®** bl? ■£* quisition added to the <^ ne W™£' ,: Mrs Boyd's estimable/ fts > and *** , seats we may congraf ate dursejvaa; - upon having'done go* w^ rk.?» °J>* 1 parks in this year y9-— Yours, _,m, wcrowthep. ; (To the Editor rf?f» "New ZealMfl ;/ Sir,-His Wore/ *he Ma >"« te «« serving of all p^e f? r direction to se^ a band rotunda ft* , this city Asr engineer bae beea Ib^ structed'to r^ 6 plans for the perhaps he Z 10* ** offended lf M 0»t! ' sider refers^ 1 to tho stand erected «: Napier by?ssrs Neal and Close, «nfl-J presented/ *he«to that town. M <T model v/Y 1"011 t0 PrePare Vd»mWs. sary pi/ eto* U the baridsmeh-wii<» ' attendr 16 late contest held In Nap!<*r ■ were/ nimOUS in the °Pinion that *lw rotu/ in that town is tho flnoßt *«^ : "i Ito date in New Zealand, aU« ; addition of being lighted by Ae Jty, one erected here on similal" 11 J could not fail to gladden the hearts \ %\\ bandsmen, besides being an orna«it to the City of Wellington.-Yours, civis. '