N.S.W. STATE ORCHESTRA

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15975, 18 November 1919, Page 10

N.S.W. STATE ORCHESTRA

PROPOSED VISIT TO WANGANUI. A public meeting was held in the Borough Council Chambers last night, when the proposed visit of the New South Wales. State Orchestra to Wanganui was discussed. The DeputyMayor, Cr. G. Spriggens, presided. Mr* Gladstone Hall, the Dominion secretary, was present, and explained the objects of the .tour. He said that the tour was in no sense a money-making undertaking. It was being undertaken solely in the interests of fostering a love for good music and giving the people of the Dominion the chance of hearing what is perhaps the finest combination of its kind ever organised in the Southern Hemisphere. The scheme was a Dominion one, and all the arrangements are on that basis. The estimated cost of the tour was something over £9OOO, and to provide against all reasonable? contingencies a guarantee of £IO,OOO was wanted. The guarantee at present amounted to about £BOOO. All the expenses would be pooled as will also the revenue, and ’should there be any deficit to make up, it would be borne proportionately by the whole of the guarantors. If. there were any profits these would be allocated as followsso per cent to remain in New Zealand as the nucleus of a fund for the establishment of a conservatorium of music or some such object; 30 per cent to the funds of the New South Wales Conservatorium Funds, and 20 per cent to the organiser of the tour, who at present was merely guaranteed an amount to cover his expenses. The chief centres have each guaranteed £2OOO for four concerts, and the amount asked for in Wanganui was £3OO for a one-night season. ~ The meeting decided to do all it could to ensure a visit to Wanganui, and a strong committee was set up for that purpose, the following being se-lected-.—Madame Emily Briggs, Mesdames Hughes-Johnson, Kitchen, Wall, Christie, Robertson, Wilson, Redwood, Armstrong, Ramsay, Spillane, W. Peat; Misses V. Price, Ruby Curran, Bignell, Purvey, Toxwood Young; and Messrs 0. E. Mackay, Goo. Spriggens, Gordon Mcßeth, Stanley Brown, Fletcher Jones, C. Bignell, F S. Tunnicliffp, A. Bignell, Leslie Beck, W. S. Dustin, L. Cohen, J. C. Richardson. Geo. Buckley, Lanpe Craig, T. C. Webb, T. E. Thomas, E. Christie, W. Duncan. H. Collier, W. J Poison, Dr. Marshall, Frank Moore. W. Hall, D. Mcßeth, SpiUane, Gifford Marshall, E. A. Campbell, Rev. Reeve, J. Trussell, Rev. Blamires, Rev. McKenzie, Father 0 Connell, Pardington, J. Foster, J. Stevenson, C. P. Brown, R. Stevenson, A. Campbell, Webb-Jones, Beckerton, J. BaU.