HAWERA’S BAND

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 September 1924, Page 5

HAWERA’S BAND

CONDUCTOR WANTED

APPLICATIONS TO BE'CALLEIb^

. At last night’s meejtiiig of tke Hfiwera Borough Council the 'Band • Com-; mittee recommended that applications be called for the .position of r-bantUj-master, applications to be considered" Jit a special meeting of the council to be called on October 6.' ' The •commit-*, tee also recommended that every effort be made to have the band in f uIL ivopk -. J ng by the elid of November, and fur-\' ther that the Band Committee should have full control andi management ;qf. the band’s affairs, save only that the appointment of and termination of thb agreement with the conductor should rest with the council. A 'final reconii mendation was that the council adver-,, tise for members. ■ ; T Tlie principal conditions proposedwere that the salary should be - £2oo’ per annum; the successful applicant must be qualified to" conduct, control the band, and also to teach, pupils--for future membership • the successful applicant must give the band, first claim on his services and time, must attend aIL practices that may he' ‘arranged and conduct the band* at . all -public performances -and. engagements'; - r . the band must give at-lepst .12' public.'cbncerts during the year, and also play at such other times-as the Band Commit-. tee may from time to time request, ' Or Reid said that when the 'couneh’ agreed -to place £2oo' on' the < estimates tney did not necessarily mean-that the whole of it shop Id ..be- spent .in salary.. He understood that when the.question "as first mentioned-' Cr ‘Osborne bad oika ll t ri ey -r, c ° l ? ltI get a g°bd man ‘toi 0150. Cr Reid considered, that-the council should go .carefully, as their cost of administration was increasing: , - here was no further discussion. ’and the Band Committee’s report was adopted.