AND NOW AN ORGAN!

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 4

AND NOW AN ORGAN!

MUSIC AT H.V. HIGH SCHOOL

Music has a first place among the extra-curriculum enthusiasms of the boys and girls of the Hutt Valley High School. They have their own band, and a good one, coached enthusiastically by Mr. if. Gray, their choirs and music circles,-an orchestra, and a very competent dance orchestra for their term dances. Now the school has flown higher, and is properly proud of its biggest musical requisition, a full Wurlitzer organ purchased by the generosity of a number of parents of pupils and ex-pupils, including several large donations specifically for the purchase of the organ, and with funds built up by the Parents' Association and assistance from the Education Department.

It is a magnificent instrument and is described by Mr. H. A. Tustiii. who has rebuilt it at the school, as in perfect ?-? ndli. 12?n Ori SinaHy it cost something uke £6000 when installed in an Auckland picture theatre, but thanks in great part to the interest taken in school music and in the purchase by the Rev. Maurice Pirani, it has become the property of the school at a really bargain price. To house it a loft has been built above the assemly hall and thus considerable additional expense has been met in part by the Education Department as an encouragement of the self help and enterprise shown by the school and its supporters. This evening the first performance, when Mr. Pirani will play several numoers, will be attended by their Excellencies, Sir Cyril ahd Lady Newall. The house has been just about sold out for days past, and a second recital will be given tomorrow evening. Besides oi-gan numbers the band will play and there will be solo and other items.