CONCERT AT WAIKERIA

Waipa Post, Volume 51, Issue 3645, 19 July 1935, Page 7

CONCERT AT WAIKERIA

TE AWAMUTU BAND ENTERTAINMENT. An excellent concert was provided at the Waikeria Institute on Tuesday evening by the Te Awamutu Municipal Band, assisted by several Te Awamutu artists. All were accorded a good reception and the hope \yas expressed by Mr Dunlop, the superintendent, that the Band and party would return at any early date for a similar performance.

During the evening community singing was enjoyed by the inmates. The Band played.—The march, “True Friends'’; selection, “Knight Errant”; fox trot, “I’ll String Along With You”; waltz, “Queen of Flowers”; march, “1914”; fox trot, “Trip Along”; march, “New Dominion”; waltz, “The Old Spinningwheel”; hymn tunes. “Remington,” “Euphony,” “Tell Me The Old, Old Story, ’ with vocal refrain by Bandsmen Rogers and Parkinson; and the National Anthem.

The vocalists were.—Mrs McCready. “Smiling Through,” “Love’s Old Sweet Song,” “Bells of St. Mary,” the inmates joining in and singing the choruses; Mrs Steer, “The Splendour of the Morn,” “Danny Boy”; Miss Gypsy Garvey, “The Dainty Dam'osel,” “What’s the Time Blackbird?”; Miss Audrey Mail’s (elocutionary items), “My Financial Career,” “George, Where Are You?”; Mr Win. Coiboy, “Passing By,” “Thank God for a Garden”; Mr Roy Andrew, “My Old Shako,” “On the Heart of a Rose.”

Mrs Hawkins and Miss Phyllis North capably played the accompaniments, and Mrs Hawkins also played for the community singing.