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BAND AFFAIRS

QUESTION OE REFORMING.

DISCUSSED BY IBOROUGH COUNCIL.

The Borough Council last evening devoted a few minutes to consideration of band affairs.

Cr Downes said there was a very good prospect of the Municipal Band being revived as an active organisation. He (the speaker) was the Council’s representative on a citizens’ committee. That committee desired to know whether the Council wou(ld, b,e able to make any contribution to the band’s funds.

Cr McCarroll wanted more representation by the Council on the band committee.

The chairman said the committee had no objection to increase representation as suggested. Further he thought the Council should make part of the building known as the barracks available as a band room. A letter from Mr A. G. Warburton, on behalf of the band committee, and read at a Council meeting on 24th May, was re-read to correct Cr Montefiore’s suggestion that the Council had nothing from the bandsmen before it-in-dicating any intention to resuscitate the band. 'Cr Downes said the Council was agreeable to contribute £512 per annum.

Cr Jeffery criticised, the proposal emanating from the band committee •for paying a bandsman when his employer deducted wages for time off work when fulfilling band engagements. That seemed to him to be quite wrong, for it was like holding a pistol at the head! of any employer of a bandsman.

Cr McCarroll said if the Council contributed £52 per annum the organisation must be a municipal band. Cr Downes said the by-laws proposed were only a draft, and before they were confirmed by the band they must conform with the Council’s requirements. fßut what was actually desired now was how much (if anything) the Council would grant. The Council had decided on £52 for this year. No. 2 query was as to a band room. Well, they could probably have part of the barracks: that was a matter for the works committee to decide after an inspection. No. 3 inquiry was as to approval or otherwise of the draft by-laws. Certainly some of the by-laws would have to be amended. He, as the Council’s representative, would raise those points when the committee met. It was d,ec.ided to meet the band representatives next Monday morning.

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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1779, 6 July 1926, Page 5

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BAND AFFAIRS Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1779, 6 July 1926, Page 5

BAND AFFAIRS Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1779, 6 July 1926, Page 5