Orchestra grant
Sir,—You report the City Council grant to the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra as $5890. Fortunately, this is only the council’s share of the recommended metropolitan grant of $lO,OOO. There is a further orchestral grant of $9llO, which includes provision for orchestra users, such as the Royal Christchurch Musical Society. Unfortunately, however, this still only brings the council’s total to $15,000; and probably the full metropolitan local bodies’ contribution for orchestral purposes to only about $lB,OOO. This is a sad decline from the $47,000 that Christchurch local bodies gave for orchestral purposes just a few years ago. It is particularly unfortunate because the orchestral grant is the only grant which attracts a one-for-one subsidy from government sources (in this case, the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council). Other metropolitan areas have risen to this challenge. Auckland has found $72,000 for its orchestra and even Dunedin produced $24,000 to attract the subsidy. Christchurch lags well behind. — Yours, etc., HELEN GARRETT, City Council representative, C.S.O. Board. November 17, 1981.
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