TOWN HALL MEETINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 163, 10 July 1914, Page 8

TOWN HALL MEETINGS.

,To the F.ditnr.^ Sir.-Last evening I attended the left.nrr delivered by Mr. D.iti Crawford in tin- Town Hall." For thf> spine of AO minutes »-p sat eazin- at the --plenrlii; nriran erev'ed by the fienerosity of -Mr. ISrett [ am from the euuntry, arid =p1 d.mi in Auckland, and would have been so plc:i.-<l to liear that instnmifiit nlaycil. A ppntleman told m< , tliat thi , ..r-'ani-t rp«*ivc« £400 a. year fov his siTvii-e- ;i.nd surely on an ricr:isioil surli as lausv ewnin-. wlien (lie hall was virtually full, he- miprlit have treated the amli- , • ■r\i-i- to n short orjrjn rp.-ilal diinnc tn» tpdioue wait. 11 the oflicUl orjtanUt olhorwis.- onpai'ed. would not one ot th.m?ny oru'aui-i.- of the i-ity ohurehm vollmtp'er l'is .-oni.-p- ami disi-ourw sweet miLsie !o an appreciative an.liomWhile 1 am nminhlmu. may 1 |i«l I oni mmv note in a minor key. At mi , <-10.-c of the meeting it took v- nearly ten minutes to iret out from the Horn ro\r. W,—nn th<- ground floor—wen: tliroiip one iloor ami then up a >!air. ue to t «• street. In i«se r>f lire, one 10 U.ink -what wouJ.l li:ip|n-n. riml stair- ,-!•»!• would l>e janiiiifil with naman bodice and Vi-oniP a veritable de.r. .i-tran. There may he other exits, but tjiey we . not available last ni-.-M. It h-,1 ... I;.; the boast, of the official* of Sptirawii - Ta-'iprnarip. in London, whirh with W |» n pallerie, «a< ju.jcM every Sunday with an audience of T.onn |.pr.oni. th.it el t-.. July 7.