QUEEN’S OWN BAND IS £64 SHORT OF MONEY FOR NEW INSTRUMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 December 1949, Page 4

QUEEN’S OWN BAND IS £64 SHORT OF MONEY FOR NEW INSTRUMENTS

The Queen Alexandra Band is still £64 12s 6d short in its appeal tor funds for new instruments, and an appeal is being made lor subscriptions to meet that deficit. An audited statement of income and expenditure covering the appeal has been released. This shows mat a sum o£ £6lO 17s lOd was received from donations, £lOO was obtained by a grant made by the Department ot Internal Affairs, and a talent quest brought in a sum of £479 17s 6d. A carnival promoted by the band lor the appeal resulted in a sum of £1374 3s lid being received in gross takings, against which there way a sum ot £lO7 11s expended, leaving a profit of £666 12s lid. Opera House raised a gross amount of £2Ol 14s Bd, but the expense incurred there amounted to £l2O 9s Bd, leaving a net return of £Bl ss. A sum of £29 was transferred from general funds or the band to the instrument appeal. The net income from all those sources amounted to £1967 13s 3d. To that has been added a sum of £29 6s lid interest from the Post Office Savings Bank, bringing the total funds available to £1997 0s 2d.

The band has already paid £lOOO of that on account of new instruments which are to cost £2061 12s Bd. It hat in hand £997 0s 2d, which is £64 12s 6d short.

It has been unanimously decided by the band not to attend the coming New Zealand contest because of the expense it has been put to over instrument, and it still has to provide new uniforms. An appeal is to be made in that direction later, and it is intended to go to the contest in 1951.

Although the band is not going to the contest next year, all members are assiduously practising the test selections just as thought the band was indeed intending to compete.