LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 8

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE UPFER HUTT DISASTER FUND Sir, —I have Just noticed in the Press I tli,at the iaemilers .lupp's lianri intend ' giving a performance fin Sunday ai'tc-r-HooH next, at Newtown' Bark, an aid; of tlio above funds, and tho paragraph states "if permission: :s granted Irv tlie City Comtcil. Bodie few months ago' this hand on two .occasions applied for permission to take up a. collection at their performance ill ono of the _City •reserves, the object being ht aid ot the (/pper Tlutt Orphanage/' awl in refusing the request Councillor Frost, vide Press reports, said "that,these collections were a nuisance to the public," and permission could lint be granted., as tin's orphanage was not a local institution, and added, fnrt'iier, that there was a by-law fratiieti ill regard to collections in our re serves On tlio point of locality . 1 luul occasion in two recent cases to writo your paper where- ilio by-laws had boon "honoured, in tho broach moro tlian jn the observance:," and tlio all" thoriti'CS evaded the main point in replying to my letter, hut nevertheless I think tlio discriminating public. saw what I was trvi-ug to jro'intout-, In view of the fact that this band, who Tiavo b.c6n tttjco refused When offering their services on helialf of charity in the Upper Hutt district, ar.eiiow again willing to perform in aid of Hie Upper ll®* Distress Fund, I hope permission will be granted, and the locality of t.lio place not considered at all, as 1 am sure tlio publio will not in this caso think that "thase collefctkiis aiMi a. liili.sjiiicp .to tho public," Let this "GUbcrtian" bylaw be suspended for, iic-xt Sunday after* iicon.- I am, etc.,, < TENOR TROMBONE.