WAIHI.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 35, 10 February 1903, Page 2

WAIHI.

MONDAY, February 9-

A nublic meeting was held last Saturday evening in the Foresters' Hail, to elect three trustees and three members of committee in connection with the management of the recently formed Martha Brass Hand. Mr A. Katz was appointed chairman,^and explained that he was there as a private 'citizen, and oot as a councillor of the borough. The following gentlemen were duly elected trustees: Messrs Edward Walker* Charles Saunders, and F. Clemens. The three members of committee elected were Messrs Joseph Forster, Daniel Saunders, and R. Graham. Mr G. Hartmann gave a brief account of the financial position of the band. When the new instruments arrived there would be £100 worth of instruments in the band. There was a small debt owing on the present instruments, but he considered the financial position to be in a sound, state. A strong committee had been elected, and there were some thirty-six players in the band, under the conduetorship ,of Mr J. McCarthy, a well known musician of the district. .Mr Katz. in concluding the business for the evening, expressed his pleasure at the satisfactory statement made by Mr Hartmann, and trusted the public would rally round them and constitute them as their own band, lie believed in having two bands, for opposition was the life of trade, and he trusted that the.Martha P.and would in the future do as well as other bands iv the annual contests.

Mr All. Long, well known in athletic circles here, lias presented to the Waihi Ambulance Corps an excellent specimen Of a human skull, also a fermur bone. The skull and bone were found by Mr Long some years ago on the top of a peak near the Homaunga beach, Waihi, and are supposed to be that of some shipwrecked mariner from a wreck on that portion of the coast in the early days. The sandy soil had gradually blown away, leaving* the upper portion of the skull exposed, and now bleached quite white and splendidly preserved. Mr Long was a member of the local Ambulance Corps, and left Waihi for the Hokianga district, last Saturday.

At a meeting of St. John Ambulance Association it was decided to purchase an Ash- , ford litter and lawmoor jacket. ' The School of Mines re-opened on Monday morning after the Christmas vacation.