BAND PROPOSAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 10

BAND PROPOSAL.

PURCHASE OF PROPERTY. SITE FOR FUTURE THEATRE. (From Our Correspondent.) HAMILTON', Friday. In order to acquire a property in Orantham Street with the object n< era-tinjf n theatre at a later datp, rhe Hamilton Citizens' Bhiml has decided M borrow £1100 on debentures. The property, which includes a building, will cost £1000. and it is proposed to spend another £100 on improvements to 'he building. Mr. T. .T. P>. Mason, secretary of the band, said the debentures would !•■• issued on the whole of the assets of the band, including the instruments, which cost £!>BO, and which were insured f.ir £S.-,0. Debentures of £10 would be issued on demand and it was intended to pay off the whole of the capital in two years. The present, building on the property will be used for a band practice room and will also be made available for philharmonic and operatic societies," said Mr. Mason. "We hope later to pull down the present building and erect a theatre which will be available to these societies both for practices and staging piodii"tions."

Hγ. D. V. Bryant hns ngroid to nssist the band to raise the debenture monev.