GARRISON BAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 164, 21 July 1901, Page 2

GARRISON BAND.

To thi. Editokof" The Evening Mail" Sn-,—On reading your issue of yesterday, I came across a letter signed " Citizen " re the above. With °the major portion of his letter I hava no concern, as I have unfortunately been confined to a sick bed during the past fortnight; but in the last portion, he says, it should be an infinite pleasure, otc. Now, I can truthfully say that since I have been in charge of the Garrison Band, up to the present time, it has been an infinite pleasure to give their assistance —with the result thit 1 have lost several good players owing to the many and frequent calls made upon them, as they found that the time lost was a great inconvenience to them, iisomuch that their wives and families' h tl to go short at the oud of the week.

1 must inform " Citizon " that a large number of the members of the Garrison Band are married men with families, and if he can inform them how the in- j fiinte pleasure, etc., will pay the baker, butcher, and grocer at tbe week end, they will in future, as they have done in the past, have infinite pleasure in assisting at demonstrations of this or any other kind free. If " Citizen " would identify himself with a band, and put in only a portion of the time the Garrison Band has given to these functions, I think he would very soon tire of it, and come to the conclusion that it is not all beer ard skittles being a bandsman. — Yours, etc., C. TKUSSELL, Bandmaster, Garrison Band. Nelson, 19/7/'OI.