ISLAND BAY BAND ROTUNDA
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—ln Thursday's issue of "The Post" appeared a photograph of the new memorial band' rotunda at Island Bay. Musiclovers will welcome this structure, always providing it is put to better use than such buildings usually are: for the average brass band programme is, unfortunately, framed to please tho lower strata of ■• intelligence.
But, Sir, it seems to me that the inscription on this rotunda is hardly in keeping with the solemnity of association: it is neither dignified nor grammatical. New Zealand has tile name of leading the world in educational reform; therefore, the wording of any memorial intended to be permanent should at least conform to the laws of standard English. Should anyone contend that this objection savours of hair-splitting, ray reply is that it is purely better to split hairs than to split infinitives. —I am, etc.,
L. D. AUSTIN.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 8
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