LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4535, 11 February 1942, Page 4

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE BAND AND BENZINE Sir, —So our esteemed citizen, jovia. sport, and enthusiastic bandsmar blossoms forth in t your issue of Monday last as a purveyor of passionate platitudes over our allegedly pleasuregiving, omnipotent Band, which wants to burn benzine to transport its paraphernalia in grand style to Victoria Park, where lovers of music will bt regaled with lofty fortissimo anc peaceful pianissimo to smooth the jagged nerves of the distracted citizer worried by the E.P.S., income tai notices, and municipal peccadilloes. Ir telling phrases he envisages the scent as if the notes of the Band pervadec the air as though they were producer not by instruments but by humar means alone, rising, sinking witl ever-varying colour, tone, and mean ing, ringing like a heavenly band’: clarion notes, sighing as they art breathed forth like the whole world’s love dream—the ‘ love of music ” or which a fortune has been spent, witl nothing left but Shanks’ pony to ge the gear to the Park ! Truly, aftei reading this sapient effusion— The man that hath no music in him self, Nor is not moved with concord oi sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, ant ■spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted ! —I am, etc., WHALES FOR EVER.