CONCERT FOR HAWERA SCHOOL

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1930, Page 6

CONCERT FOR HAWERA SCHOOL

Five years ago a committee was formed to foster the love of instrumental music, among the children of the Ha- ! wera Main School. Its first effort was a drum and fife band, which attained a high degree bf proficiency, and started many boys on a musical career. Next an orchestra was formed, which became noted throughout the whole of New Zealand. Thanks to the generosity of Mr. H. C. A. Fox, all thin tuition has been given practically free. In an endeavour to. provide something - ahead of a drum and fife band, it has been decided to ask Mr. Fox to organise a military band. The good that will copie out of this venture, will, be of immense value to the senior musical organisations in the town. An anonymous donation of £2O set the ball rolling, then several smaller donations and a shop day increased the funds, but £lOO is still required to purchase the set of instruments on offer;, hence a concert, which will be held in the Opera House, Hawera, on Friday. A main feature of the concert, is the engagement of the Bridges’ Trio-Ma-rimba, violin and piano—who come from Australia, with a great reputation, for-1 artistic work., Li support of these artists the committee has. engaged Miss D. Reilly’s ladies’ choir; Mies G. Reilly, ; soprano; Miss Betty Sturrock, solo vio,'linist; Miss Leah Haughton, pianists; Mr. 11. Ackroyd, baritone; Mr. W. W. Thomas, elocutionist;. Miss N. Kent, elocutionist; Mr. Antoni Bonetti’s Hawaiian Orchestra; Hawera, Main School Orchestra and ths “Tiny Toto” Rhythmic Band, with their own eight-year-old conductor, Betty Archbold, Seats may be booked at Miss Blake’Ssweet shop. Mt. B. Turner, of the staff of the Shell Oil Company, Hawera, who lias been transferred to Napier, was met yesterday by his fellow employees and presented with a gold-mounted' fountain -pen by Mr. E. Kirkby. Mr. Turner leaves Hawera. to-day by car for his new position, BEAUTIFYING HAWERA. SUGGESTIONS TO BOROUGH €t)UNOIL. ! With the object in view of converting- ‘ ; several unsightly areas- into places of ; beauty and of effecting improvements in \ 'tho borough a deputation representing the Hawera Beautifying. Society waited, on tho Hawera Borough. Council on Monday night, requesting assistance. The

i restoration of tho historic redoubt at i Turutur .- Mokai was suggested, at.d it I was considered that shelter belts of pohutukawas on the area adjoining High Street near King Edward Park, tree ferns in a gully, lawns, hedges and :hw er-beds near tho Hawera railway sta[tion would greatl/ enhance the attvac-tivenes-s o’. the to'-'U } Mr. E. Dixon explained that the deputation •vi.shed to suggest a few improvements . ti at might be made in the borough, especially in connection with waste lands. Owing to the removal of the cattle yards at the Hawera railway station an unsightly area had been left i:i a very important street. The secre tary bad approached tho Railway Department which had agreed to eleai up , the area and fence it provided the society [would undertake the work of beautification. Before that could be done the society wished to know what assistance? it could rely on from tho council. There ■ would b.‘ o. certain amount of ex; eni>e I entailed and the secretary wanted the lassurvv.ee of '•he council that it w mid 1 keep mown the grass lawns it was proposed to sow. Tho Wilson bequest of £lOO -was mentioned by Mr. L. A. Tayler. Ho anticipated that it would take very nearly the whole amount to plant a hedge of tices around the area. A fchemo for beautifying subdivision 37, the area adjoining High Street near King Edward Park, was submitted by Mr. J. S. Murray. He believed that the subdivision could be made one of the beautiful portions of the town if i,. were sheltered by native trees. He had experimented with various types of shelter trees and was of opinion that pohutukawas were the most suitable. He had in view a variety from the Kennadec Islands, which flowered all the year round and was of a very hardy nature. He also thought that something might be done to beautify certain rest places set aside in Waihi Road. It was a favourite walk for a largo number of people,. and he suggested that seats might •be provided. On the South Road there had been a strip of land left for beautifying purposes. If a belt of trees was planted on the south side the whole of the block would be benefited.

A request was made by Mr. Watts, on behalf of tho Naumai Park committee, that the council should allow the large lake to be connected with the water supply. Tho springs in the lake dried in summer time ,and if the council were to allow the lake to be connected it would prove a great boon. Failing that, ho requested that authority should bo given for the committee to have the water which ran down the north side of High Street diverted by a pipe line to tho lake. That would keep up the level of tho lake all the year round. It was a feasible scheme, and such help -from the council would be ■an incentive to tho committee to keep going..

A vacant section at the corner of High and Gladstone Streets, adjacent to the Hawera brewery, v/as described by Mr. L. A. Tayler as being very unsightly and badly neglected. He suggested that wires on the eastern fence should bo tightened and one or two more, wires placed on the northern fence. Ako ake or some other suitable ‘ hedge could be planted along the- fence line, and tree ferns would greatly improve tho appearance of the gully. Mr. Curtayno had promised to look after the hedges and tho willow’s in the gully,.

“The citizens as a whole are indebted to those who take upon themselves the onerous duty of acting as borough councillors,” added Mr. Tayler. “I think the time has come when a permanent officer should be appointed to care fox the trees and small reserves that are scattered about tho town. It is obvious that some of tho beauty spots have suffered through lack of supervision. Naumai Park lias reached such a stage in its development that it needs more supervision.” An appeal to restore the redoubt, at Turuturu-Mokai was made by Mr. J. E'. Campbell, who asked the council when considering what to do' with the Syme bequest to allocate something towards tho beautification of that reserve. With the historic vahio attached to it the redoubt could bo mad© an immense asset to Hawera and the surrounding district, and no more fitting tribute could be paid to the pioneers than the restoration of Turuturu-Mokai. He would lilre to see; ’ something done in the way of providing an old stockade with Maori palisades. He knew of ho- other place- in Hid Dominion that lent itself more to such a purpose. ,■ So far as Turuturu was concerned the council had done- as much as it: was able to do, said tho Mayor. So far .as the. allocation of the bequest, was concerned the council was only too pleased, to. receive suggestions, as. to how it should bo spent. Mr. Dixon assured the council that the late ‘Mr. Syme. had. been, very sympathetic towards any scheme for foe restoration of Tuvuturu-Mokai, After the deputation had retired- tho council decided to vote- £l5- to the- society for the purpose of planting, shelter trees on subdivision 37, and permission was. grunted the secretary to- beautify the section at the. comer of High and Gladstone Streets. The other requests vrere referred to the reserves, committee and to the engineer.