NAVY LEAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 916, 8 September 1910, Page 5

NAVY LEAGUE.

V The. demonstration' which was held at the Town Hall. last evening by the local branch of the. Navy League 'was'a. t very successful one,' the big-hall' boiiig well filled for tho'■ decasibn. 'There .were present at: : tliu/ fiuiction bis. Excellency the Govornor and Jjady-Islington,..and a' party from' Government; .House, Cap-' taw: and' Mrs.'Goloinb. and: officers of • H.M.S. Encounter,-the''Hon. 1 Dr. Find- ; lax- and Mrs. Findlay,' his Worship the , Mayor (Mr. T.'M/AVilforil, M:V..),anil Mr. W. Frasei', M.P.; District', branches:, . of. the.;league;WeTO'-very.:,,we]l ,reprd-. suited..'. The maiii .feature "of the. entertainment was the singing" of:■: tlifl large choir of school children-'iindor the . baton of .'.Mr. Lawrence' F. ' AYatlcinß, several fino patriotic songs being sung ' very creditably indeed, whoa:tho difliculties attendant upon ;the. preparation, of, so many detachments from■ 'differ? '. cut , schools are considered. The choir was also unfortunate in : losing tho services, of Mr. Robert:.l s arlier.(i\t present indisposed), whose ..talent for inspirink confidence into children's choirs is well known. The ',choral items included "Hand of'■ Greatness,", ■ "The Red, White, and Blue,"' "The Tight Littlo Island;", ■ "The British , -: GrenadiOrs,' , : 'The Five Bolls of Osnoy" (a cliarming round), '■The-Miustrel'Boy," arid "Let the Hills'' Resound;"'■■ Items were also cOntrib'utod by Mr. E. J. Hill; whose .singing'o! "Tlib Dentli if . Nelsoii" (Brahms). was a particularly fine effort, ilncored,', ho added "Waiata.Poi".' (Alf. Hill) 1 Mr. Hill also sang "Rulo Britannia,"; tho, chorus being .sung' by; the choir. .:Mr.. C Olarkson sang tho. patriotic, song, with- chorus, "What Wβ Havo "We'll; Hold." Miss Hi\r.dingeMaltby's' recitation ..of 'Kipling's "Ber oessional"'-' wna .another ■ good l • item, , ■while'not the least, in-point of genuine entertainment wore. tho comic ." items cpiitributed by :Off.-Stov/ard -Hdriie and Chief Stoker Fuller, (of; H.M'.S. En- ': (ipuntbr),'- and .tho protty Highland costume dance by Miss Flora Shaw (of the Navy- .League), with 'pipes .. accompaniment, by Pipe-Major' A. S. Frost. The arrangements . for 'tlii'v ontertaiiimunt wore carried out by Mr. C. W. Palmer, '.lion, secretary Of. the league, while Mr. B.' H. Low,. ■of the " Newtowh . School, and' Mr.' Robt, Darrocli, Rose- -, neath Schc.nl,; assisted'on the platform: ■The accompanimontft were, played by Mr.'D. , A. Konny, who also oontyibuted Uyo.c^armtnjs^oraau &h '~.- ■.'• .',.-