ADDINGTON BURGESSES' ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18128, 18 July 1924, Page 12

ADDINGTON BURGESSES' ASSOCIATION.

The • Burgwases' Association met I^'eyehiiig, "Mr i*. Mathieson presiding. - . The Aldington Rugby League wrote asking for tha Support in the erection of a dmsiiig-shed <>n the Jerrold street Reserve. . The Town Clerk wrote in reply ;to correspondence from the. Association eta ting that no funds ere arfiilable for the «r»otion of tho proposed ahftd. Should the Association juplined'to raise the necessary funds, tho' Council would offer no objection to' the sanction of tHe building 1 ; r It yraa dfeoid<sd t6 T fite to the City Council and reqtijwt the formation of a footpath in Sotith Crescent road, and draw attention to the necessity for a culvert at the intersection of Meredith and Spencer streets. >- The secretary was instructed to write congTatufatihg Jir S. P. Wilson on hie appointment afi delegate' to tho Rugby conference in London. It was decided that theipicnio should bo held' this year #t Selwyn Hiit'e, and to hold three euchre parties in aid of tho picnic funds. The. secretary, was empowered to arrange for the necessary motors for the picnic.

The new. director of the New South "Wales Conservatorium- of Music wisely realises that there is no hope Of reviving the State Orchestra of costly meniory, and that what he rightly describes as over-lavish public expenditure and almost unlimited State subsidies are things of music's past. A new orchestra, representative of the Conservatorium only, and relying upon its own financial appeal, has been constituted (states a Sydney correspondent), and to tliis Mr Orchard proposes to add % quartette to replace that established by M. Yerbrugghen in the golden days beyond recall. This quartette hps finade a successful debut under Sir Gerald Walfejm. Concurrently thero is an effort to revive the Symphony Orchestra, winch suffered a Yerbrugghen eclipse, and the City Council haß been a6ked to let it have the To*n Hall free. This apparently cannot be done, but the Lord Mayor suggested that the orchestra might be paid to perform in th"o park. Biicent history suggests that' Sydney is not financially a. good city fpr tfie better and.this .view will be confirmed if the best it can do for u symphony orchestra is to put It in the parts.