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Otago Witness, Issue 4066, 16 February 1932, Page 21

“ While it does not appear, on the face of things, that a great deal of actual progress has been made, a lot of work has nevertheless been put in to planning and arranging.” remarked the president of the Napier Business Property Owners’ Association (Air Haskell Anderson), in commenting at a meeting of the association upon the occasion of the anniversary of the earthquake. “The greatest work,” he added, is not in the actual building, but in the planning and the arrangement of finance, and I am sure that ultimately everybody will be very very satisfied.” The expression “ to beat the band ” was recalled to visitors to the Egmont Racing Club’s meeting at Hawera by an amusing incident during the afternoon. After the race for the Egmont Jubilee Cup the trophy attached to the -race was presented to the owner of the winner. In making the presentation. Air H. G. Dickie, ALP. for Patea, commenced to congratulate the club on the occasion of its jubilee, but scarcely had he finished his first sentence when the band, on a bandstand 50 yards away, struck up a merry tune, unaware that the little function was taking place. Under the heavy handicap Air Dickie’s remarks were inaudible to all save those in the official party. An employee hurried, to appraise the bandmaster of . the situation, and the bandsmen at once stopped playing —just at the moment when Air Dickie had decided that it wa» no use trying to “ beat the band.”