Bagpipes Skirl In “Icy Wind”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 11

Bagpipes Skirl In “Icy Wind”

INVERCARGILL ANGRY REPORTER OFFENDS Press Association INVERCARGILL, Today. Considerable indignation lias been roused in Invercargill over a report which appeared in the “Otago Daily Times’’ to-day of the opening ceremony of the May Fair yesterday. The writer makes reference to “bitterly cold weather,” and adds: “The rousing strains of martial music issuing from the massed brass bands could onot overcome the effect of the could not overcome the effect of the two pipe bands make the motley crowd forget their numbed feet and watering eyes. The small fry upon whom so much of the incidental diversion depended were very sorry for themselves after they had been an hour in the show grounds with biting wind piercing their holiday garb.” Letters of protest have already appeared in the Southland newspapers, ajid the latest comes from the; Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, who fA ates: *** have read the report in the Otago Daily Times’ with feelings of surprise and regret, inasmuch as the w «tfr had apparently made up his mind to portray everything in connection with the May Fair in the gloomiest and most depressing language he u ** nd - The weather at this time k *" e year could not be expected to o© as tin® as it could have been wished, ut there was nothing, in my opinion, jo justify the gloomy outline given of ne general proceedings at the opening or the carnival.” ose Ph said the weather was all that could be desired at this time of Jl e *u edT J and tho lur f? e attendance that gathered at the show grounds took a •teen and enthusiastic interest in the Proceedings that had been arranged °y the committee.