ACTION PROMISED: THEFT OF METAL FROM BAND-STAND

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 6

ACTION PROMISED: THEFT OF METAL FROM BAND-STAND

A promise that if anyone could help the council in identifying the person who removed a quantity of lead sheathing from the site of the Trafalgar band rotunda last Saturday, the council would do its best to make an example of the thief, was given by the Mayor, Mr. N. H. Bull, at last night’s meeting of the council. It was reported to the council that during the lunch interval of a group of members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce who had undertaken the demolition of the roof and columns of the stand, some person had abstracted an amount of sheathing lead estimated to weigh about lewt.

The mayor characterised this as a particularly brazen act, and one for which the council at present had no means of accounting.

“Jaycees’” Public Spirit Mr. Bull paid a tribute to the public spirit of the members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce who had undertaken the work of removing the obsolete portion of the bandstand as a voluntary effort for the improvement of community amenities.

The example was one which he hoped might stimulate others to offer

co-operation to tile council for similar purposes.

The result of the Junior Chamber’s work was really pleasing, he thought. “I can assure you that without encroaching upon the earning power of the borough's staff, there is a great deal of work that can be done by voluntary effort in the town,” Mr. Bull concluded.