THE KAIKORAI BAND AND SUNDAY CONCERTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14282, 3 August 1908, Page 6

THE KAIKORAI BAND AND SUNDAY CONCERTS.

a TO THE EDITOR. r Sir,—l have very, good authority for e stating that the Kaikorai Band does not' j wish to provoke any conflict of public fcelB i»g by (riving band concerts on Sunday j evenings for tho purpose of raising money y if tho balance requited to defray the expenses of tho Ballarat journey can bo s obtained in any other way. But I am ■ informed that the band has exhausted every ' other moans of making up tho full amount, '• and has proposed the Sunday concerts as a e last resouvoo. y From the band standpoint, I think tho ! > visit to Ballarat is In every way desirable. e T-heso friendly contests do much to promote i- and maintain amicable relationships with 6 other countries and are a useful corrective • 1- of (is parochialism which lias been charged ■ r against New Zealand. And if any band is entitled to tho honour of representing d OUiro, to say the least, in Australia, it is the Kaikorai. That 'baud ha 6 won a dis- ■ y tingnished place in our Dominion contests n and is wortny of seokmg distinction, an a ;• wider field. The total cost of sending 30 y performers to Ballarat will be about £500, •a of which the band has raised £380. To cs save tho band from being placed in a posir- tiou of antagonism to the convictions of ie very many ottizens—antagonism wJaich tho )_ band itself wishes to avoid—l now beg to y suggest' that it wHIbo a graceful act, and j at the same time BPfivent what many feel v will bo a deplorable invasion of tho sacrod- ' ness of the Christian Sabbath, if the rg oitizens of Dunedin will mitecriba tho j. balanoe of £120. If you, Sir, will oonaent to receive donations for this purpose doubtless many will contribute, and tho writer will bo one.—l am, etc., I . , W. StADE. . Central Mission 3lar.se, Fernhill street, d [We are quite propared to accede to our d corresjmdcnt's suggestion and to receive „ subscriptions for tho object in question.— ' r ® Ed O.D.T.] S