MALE VOICE CHOIR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 7

MALE VOICE CHOIR

FINANCES IMPROVE

Tho seventeenth annual report of the Wellington Male Voice Choir, which is to be presented to the annual meeting of the choir tomorrow evening, states that the past year was much better financially than the . previous one, a small debt being wiped off and a credit balance of over £23 secured.

Three public concerts were held during the year, and these were all successful and were broadcast. The choir's library was enhanced by gifts, and Mr. J. Maughan Barnett's "Aotearoa" and "The Shadow March" proved popular additions. The choir visited the Home of Compassion. Island Bay, the Hobson Street Red Cross Hospital, and the Mental Hospital at Pqrirua, the musical programmes being greatly appreciated at each institution. Visits were exchanged with the R.S.A. Choir and the two choirs cooperated at the concert given for the Wellington Free Ambulance.

The membership of the choir is thirty-five singing, and fifty-three honorary members, and the report recommends an effort to increase these numbers and calls upon present singing members to attend practices regularly. During the year the choir lost two members by death. Mr. Hugh Wright, who was president and a foundation member, died after a long illness, and later in the, year Mr. M. Tracy, a new member, died.