MUSICIAN AND COMMITTEE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10685, 3 September 1920, Page 3

MUSICIAN AND COMMITTEE

♦ COTJET CASE FOLLOWS. '' Music, may be very enjoyable in its place and harmony is usually appreciated by all, but when the creators of the "soothing melody" become involved in a' dispute over an engagement it can be termed discordant. Yesterday, before Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., Leonard Albert Bratind (of Braund's Ellite Orchestra) proceeded against several defendants, who, ho alleged, had- agreed with-him for plaintiff to engage an orchestra consisting of a pianist nnd violinist each Saturday night from February 7tU, 1920, until the end of the dancing season at the rate of £1 15s per performance and that tho-defendants had wrongfully terminated such agreement. Ho alleged that the sum of ,£24 was duo to him at the time of the termination, and as he had suffered damage in reputation he claimed tho sum of .£35 15s. V For "the-defendants it was contended that plaintiff was employed merely as a violinist, that the pianist was a member of the committee, and no such agreement of employment had been made. As there was no possibility of the case being completed (owing to congretion of magisterial business) the case was adjourned indefinitely. Mr H. F. O'learv appeared for the defendants and Mr A Fair for the plaintiffs.