RECITAL ABANDONED

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 13 August 1932, Page 6

RECITAL ABANDONED

AN EPISODE AT NOON TOO COLD TO PLAY ORGAN IN TOWN HALL LOFT (Press Press Association) Wellington. August 12. An organ recital being given by tbo city orgauist, Air Bernard RggP, at, midday Uail a sudden ending after aboxit quarter of an hour. Air Page being unable to continue, he said, owing to the cold. He explained to a reporter later that it was not the physical discern, fort that caused him to stop, but the impossibility of continuing to play with his fii>gcr s paralysed by ftlie cold. The temperature to-day in the organ lift wag -32 decrees. Tlie <• Id fed in from outside made a. terrible draught round the organ seat, and under such conditions his hands became paralysed by the cold. All- Pago recalled that on one occasion some years ago-, soon after his arrival in Wellington, lie was forced to abandon, a recital for the same reavon, the weather on that occasion being the same as to-day, cold southerly blowing.