THE COMMUNITY SING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11251, 1 July 1922, Page 3

THE COMMUNITY SING

“CIVILITY COSTS NOTHING.” Under the above heading, a correspondent, a gentleman representing a distant constituency in Parliament, writes as under: “Among the many who wended their way to the Town Hall last evening to see and hear for the first time a community sing-song was the writer. The evening was a very pleasant one. AAI course, one cannot get every song to suit tho individual. One thing, however, we got a good relaxation of our facial muscles. The only 'fly in the ointment,’ so far as I was concerned, was the nasty snarl I got when I approached one of the ushers who was selling the song-books, in my case refusing to sell. I tendered a halfcrown for payment, and I was told, not very politely, *1 can't give you change.* Now, sir, to a stranger coming to your town, I felt wroth, and if it had not bceu that I did not wish to create a scene, I would have told the man what I thought of him. However, another usher came along (a Y.AI.C.A. man), and I asked would he give change; I got a quite civil reply, “Vos.” So I got my book, and was able intelligently to enjoy the showß*