OTAHUHU BAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19891, 9 March 1928, Page 10

OTAHUHU BAND.

ALTERATION OF STATUS. A recommendation that the Otahuhu Municipal Band should become the 3rd Auckland Mounted Rifles Band was approved by the Otahuhu Borough Council last evening. It was considered that, by this step, the ratepayers of Otahuhu would gain the advantage of having a band of considerably greater efficiency, since it would be under military control, and the . maintenance of instruments would depend not only upon the council's funds, but also upon the resources of the- military authorities.

It was stated the Defence Department would, under certain conditions, agree to the" proposal. These conditions, which were accepted, repaired, first, that 25 per cent, of all moneys received from { .the council should be handed ovpr to a joint committee consisting of officers of the regiment, band representatives and council members. Instruments already the property of the council, 01 ot tho military authorities, were to remain so, and any instruments purchased later with the council's money would remain the property of the council. The department would supply uniforms and its subsidy would be used iti the payment of the band conductor's honorarium. In view of the great benefits which ratepayers would receive by the change, the Band Committee recommended that the council should continue to contribute its subsidy as before, and that funds in hand should be employed in providing additional instruments necessary to provide the complete set.