DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11, 19 March 1908, Page 17

DUNEDIN

For some years the celebration of St. Patrick's Dayr in Dunedin hs.s been confined to a National concert m ■I'he evening, and this ytar has been no .exception to the rule. During thj past few wee*s an-energetic committee,with Mr. W. P. Rodgers as secretary, had been actively engaged in making arrangements for the celebration, . with the result that they were in & posi+ion to a fine piogratnme to the very large audience that f fired every part of the Garrison -Hall on Tuesday evening. The programme items were nearly all of a national character, and were interpreted hy the \arious performers ' in a -manner which 'left little to be desirrd. Encores* were the ordsr of- the evening, and no soloist escaped this mark- of appreciation. The opening number .was a. selecsion, I* Irish Airs, by ths well known Kaikorai Band, under the conduct orsbip of Mr. G-. Laidlaw. The Band also ope<n d the second part of the programme with -ia selection from 'Maiitana,' and it is needless to- say that both items were • remark ably well played. Miss G-. Meenan san^-with much artisftjo tp.ste • Come back, to Erin,' for uhich she was enthusiastically recalled. Miss EL Sweeney's programme items were '• Terence's farewell *-