THAMES BAND CONTEST.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10525, 25 April 1907, Page 1

THAMES BAND CONTEST.

(To the Editor.)

©if, —I ami yerysorry if my bumoroub «ktiticfci caused Mr Hastings any annoyance. I can aesure him none was intended,' «*. it never Wit* over a norn de plume, tout lilt©, (&• proTeririal SdMbtejlaiii who took IST mtmths to fiee a joke, your correspondent may to time tooome see andapprttokta my skistjoU: on ovstwdle jwlging. 'Now, m Mk- Hastings octousea ipe.M- jealousy, permit me to afcat© that I neref ihad an atoni.of: tbat •commodity-in.a^y, <jom,pjgt»ita«9l, and shlould oowdderit a poor sutefiitute for a jok», but afi your correapoodent looks on Wile matter as one of serious import, it beboTw me* to do so likewise. The very fact of publicly ajnnowwaog.tihßit "no local judge need, apply refertetf to Mr Trus*^ and tnyaeJf. "Pheriefore wtoen the qvninit tiee, did <bq I considered 'tifap] Tpjere goJng .^o miak'e * distinct departure ftroin the usual course and resort to outside jiy&ging: , Ho«ff!eTer I !hay« l^ep mi*. taken 1. Judges afce appoiilted; for the following reasons: (a) inltegrifcf: (Ib) musical qualifications of a eußdentlr high owler, to ettalble than to jirftfp.' Whleni thie exemtmi of tlhte N.I.F. Band AiaßOoiation met in. AuoklanjA-^ toxtag the progaie« of th« wmtert--raftiy pwseautibd! strict: inquiriefl int« my integrity amd musical aualifioatioiw, and *er«f app*rentlr «atba«d, for I henrtß note been «k»d !jy th«A iAlwociartwaiy to tweome one of their re* gieibertdjudgw; tbertrfore I mtM* a«sume *h»* I am aifitatad" proper per*wi to judge Wren a Hhaanes contest. Had the koal committeeNtieen desirous of eiciudingi atoy particular pemon or persons tirmat adjudicating alb their domfe**, the wiser plan would haro «een to permit (bands to vote for any judge, at the game thnle furniihinc thieto with «, reason why no* local judc* Aould We voted for, witihout huniS the local ones Iby Ratine tKa* they Weed not apply.-* am:, «tW., ED'GIBtN'B HllJlis^ Adjuoator, late Royal Marine Band 1.

I (We hAve excjaed portion of Mr E. Hufee'a loiter, asm wnmder it beside the question: The writer appeut to we distm*)inig! timißelf umedemMilr No decision has yet 'bum arrived ait in the .jmttet of.« judge; u> f«* *• thmgi i 8 y^ Jq, ;|jj ;. case th© nomination and appointment of <an iNdjuidioator wall be fcftafe, tjj e bands of the.ownjjetang; band*, but ft was deemed expedientr^fche qiiesfion of aiMlitjr ,«as never raised—to iwlacfe ; t&e judge ftwm outeide *he lAJucWan<l ; province.—,Bdit«r.)