SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 6, 7 December 1931, Page 5

SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT

EFFORT BY R.S.A. The local branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association held a highly successful concert in the Opera House last night in aid of the Central Relief Committee’s funds and, despite the fact that tho evening proved inclement, there was an excellent attendance of patrons. As a result the funds of the committee will benefit to the extent of £ls 5s 3d.

The programme presented was a varied and entertaining one and embodied the following numbers: —Overture, “Why” and “Goodnight, Sweetheart,” Larkin’s Orchestra .of five players; songs, “Boots” and “Sea Fever,” Mr A. G. Brown; violin solos, “Liebsrstraum,” “Sclionroe Marin,” “Poem Hongroise” and “Humoresque,” Miss D. Baker; duet, “Come Sing to Me” and “In the Spring Time,” Mr H. F. Wollerman and Miss Wollerman; songs, ‘“Nightingale in June” and “The Star,” Miss N. Whalley; topical songs, Messrs T. Simpson and B. J. Jacobs; songs, “I Hear You Calling Me” and “Dpn’t You Mind Me, Honey,” Miss O’Brien; songs, “Give Me Thanks and Sing” and “It Is Enough,” Mr F. G. Taplin; finale. “Dream a Little Poem of Me” and “Got tho Bench, Got the Park,” Larkin’s Orchestra.

All the principals met with enthusiastic receptions and they replied with encores in each instance. In returning thanks on belialf of the Central Relief Committee, the Mayor (Mr Mansford) announced that the takings had amounted to £ls odd and had it not been for the rain the amount might well have been greater for the people of Palmerston. North always supported a worthy object. He added that there was seldom an occasion when the R.S.A. held a concert that Misses Whalley, Baker and O’Brien did not help in some measure. It was a pleasure to accord a vote of thanks to them and to the other artists who had assisted during - the evening. Palmerston North was proud of its Returned Soldiers’ Association and when it had been announced that the Relief Committee in November last needed funds urgently Mr B. J. Jacobs (the president) had offered all possible help from that organisation. “I can assure you that the money for relief is definitely needed as there aro many families in the town who are on the verge of starvation,” stated Mr Mansford, who said that . there were some in the position to give but did not do so, although, fortunately, these were very few in the city and nearly every organisation had come to the help of the committee. A vote of thanks was also accorded Mr F. Jackson for the use of the theatre, and Mr McLeod for lending the piano.

DONATION FROM AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY. Mr B. J. Jacobs, president of the Palmerston North Amateur Operatic Society, has written to the treasurer

of tho Central Relief Committee as follows:—“I am requested by my society to hand you a cheque for £lO towards the funds of the Central Relief Committee. The full balance-sheet of the recent production of ‘The Arcadians’ will in due course be submitted to the Relief Committee, while all vouchers in connection with items shown on the balance-sheet will bo submitted to you if required. The balance-sheet for the production has been compiled up to date and shows a net profit of £7 odd, "but there is still to be received an account from the Buttonhole Company in Sydney in respect of wardrobe which is estimated at from £ls to £2O, so that, there will actually bo a loss on the production. I also would like to- mention, so that there will be no misunderstanding in the minds of " anybody, that even donations, which could,, pr - perly be charged to the production, have been debited to our capital owing to the connection with the Relief Committee, so that the balance-sheet will bo an accurate one. Also, I would like to repeat that the payment for the social .evening had nothing to do with the receipts from the production nor were they intended to have anything to do with it. My society felt that, having used the name of your committee in regard to the production, they should make some contribution to your funds quite irrespective of the fact that ho profit was made, and in passing it on to you I am authorised by my society to say that as they have proved of some assistance to you in the past so they hope in the future to be able to lend some aid in the deserving objective you are striving to attain*’

The treasurer of the Central Relief Committee states that the donations from the society on their two productions this year aggregate £llß 17s 8d —a very handsome contribution to the Central Relief Funds.