Wanganui

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 25, 8 July 1925, Page 29

Wanganui

■ (From our own Correspondent.) ✓ July 3. After much rain, sunshine at last and blue sky,' just in time for the Bargain Sales. The only things which make this drab life worth while, nothing attracts ns like a shop window plentifully decorated with sale tickets, and, wherever else one may feel strange, one is always sure of meeting ol friends at the sales.. Every business has its heirlooms,, and the diminutive garments of to-day’s vogue are an easy matter to anyone with the least bit of courage and imagination. They really don’t take much stuff or making! Wanganui friends of Rev. Father O’Connell, S.M., have been very sorry to hear of his long illness. But now comes news, brought back by holiday makers who have been doing Sydney, that Father O’Connell is getting, better, although he is still in Lewisham Hospital. We all wish him a complete recovery, and that as soon as it can come about. On Tuesday of this week, the first of a series of orchestral concerts for children was given at the Opera House by the local Orchestral Society. The movement is an educational one which is well established in America, gaining favor in England, started in Australia lately, and Wanganui is the first, I hear, in New Zealand. The idea is to foster an intelligent understanding of decent music in the minds of the children, and, during the concert, a short description is given of each instrument in the orchestra and its operation demonstrated, the hour spent thus becoming a sort of. animated music lesson. The first concert was quite a success, the Opera House being packed with school children who kept remarkably ’ quiet and seemed very interested," Time will show what the effort is worth from a musical and every point of view. . . The Children of - Mary’s social at - the Druids’. Hall last week was very successful, it being in aid of Food Fair funds. Euchre prizes were .won by Mrs. Carmody (bag of flour) and Mr. , C, Morgan (fountain pen). Supper, as usual, was enjoyed by all,' and the dance music provided by Stoddart’s' Orchestra, was • a special feature of the evening.