AUSTRALIAN ORCHESTRA
DOMINION TOUR PROPOSED PROTEST BY AUCKLAND UNION jl'eb United Pisebs association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 8. A stir has been caused among professional musicians by the desire of a theatrical management to bring an Australian orchestra of 28 players to tour New Zealand with a visiting theatrical company In the near future The New Zealand Arbitration Act fixes the union membership fee at 5s on the basis of compulsory unionism, while the New Zealand musicians desiring to perform in Australia have first to be approved for union membership and then pay the high admission fee ° Efforts made by the organisations in both countries to arrange a reciprocal agreement have failed The Auckland union has forwarded to its national executive in Wellington a protest against the proposal to permit an Australian orchestra to tour the Dominion contending thai the company should bring onlv players such as cannot be supplied in the Dominion
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23678, 9 December 1938, Page 14
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