A meeting of the Otahuhu Mutual Improvement Association was held on Monday evening. Mr. R. Dick read a paper on " Robert Burns." The room was crowded. Mr. Dick in his paper passed a high eulogium on the poet. During the evening Misses Harding, Pilcher, Dick and Messrs. Ewen and Dick sang some of Burns' stirring songs and poems. The audience was an enthusiastic one, and after the paper an interesting discussion ensued as to the relative merits of Burns, Tennyson, and the later English poets, The next meeting April 30 being the one nearest/ to April 23 (Shakspere's day) will be devobed to Shakepere. -« V
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9492, 23 April 1894, Page 5
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