AUCKLAND MANNERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 138, 11 June 1914, Page 2

AUCKLAND MANNERS.

iTo the Editor.l Sir.- I quite agree with the remarks of your correspondent nradc in last Tues. diiy'.s paper, re the manners of Auckland audiences. To fully air one.- feelings iii thi.- matter, t.Vc wishes that the Jiiiglish language were more expressive than it it-. 1 have attended a. good many of our Town Hall concerts, and 'for-ab-solute greed, and utter disregard- of respect to performers, Auckland audiences easily come iirst. It would he a good thing if the National Anthem were played at the opening of all entertainments, instead of at the close and so f.ir as t'nc audience eared, the Dead March might just as well be played. In (act. it would be appropriate, inasmuch a„ one wou'.-d think that -all respect and loyalty of the audience to-our Ticloved King was quite dead. Encore* are given regardless of the merits of the item, and one cannot, help having the impression thai '.lie people arc out to get all they i-.in fur their money, and that as ihe audience came in -at tbe dno r and wiped off the dust and dirt of the street.; on the mat. they also wiped off with it all manners they pver prassfssed. The whole matter is exprc-sed in two .word-: "Absolute sclnshnesp."— I am. etc., CANDID.