THE MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2189, 30 June 1914, Page 8

THE MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA.

DEMAND ON GUAEANTOItS. . 9s. lld7lN~'rilE £, It was in July, IMO, that Mr. Maughan Barnett submittdd a scheme .to the City Couttei! which bad as its object the formation of a Municipal Orchestra. Owing to the dmjbtful ey& which had bcefi easijttpfftt tlio project bjs the City Fathefs of ifiiit tinm, Mr. Burnett had the foresight to go- to tile council fully prepared fof every emergency. In the letter he wrote to tlie Town Clerk on that occasion, Mr. Barnett said: , "I estimate flmt the exjieiises additional to that incurred at- each oi' the. present organ recitals .would not exceed £25 —it would probably be Jess-. la order that tho council should not run aiiy financial' risk tit connection with this additional cost,. I have followed the plan adopted by Mr. A, ft. Miles and others 'in' <?cmncot-ictt With . tlw visit of the Exhibition Orchestra to- AVoliun:ton some time ago, aiid have obtained a number of guarantors, v,:bo Would be respoiisiblc for any defeietioy."' In all, an amount not far short of 1 £300 was' guarante'ed-j and iii due course tho orchestra Was lonnedj and thi'juc.liout 1911, 1912, and pa,r& of 1913' gave concerts fairly Tegulatly id the Town Hall! It now that the total loss incurred by the City Council in conncction with tlie Municipal. Orchestra amounted to £211 ISs. Gr!. In a letter to the guarantors (received bv yesterday's post), tlie Towii GfaHT, nays: , "Dear sir, l —! ana directed' by tlie •Wellington City Council to inform you that they have decided to call upon tho guarantors ill Conucf.tiot'i with ills Municipal Oreliestra to jay in proptmtion to their fediv-idiial gua-rafntees the amount of the iHss'es incitrred on 'tlve operations of' suell- flfetestta du-fiirg i-fie period of its oxisteiice. Tb« amonnf/of such loss .is -Ci'i) ISs. od. ; of whicli Bum the council Jinis written off £14 18s. 6d., leaving 'JpWO to.lsa met by the guarantors, wtin will require to nay 9s. lid. in tho The above is. of especial tntciest at tlio present time, Acr the pyese-irt City Organist- (Mr. Par«) " endeavouring to. form or reform tlio Mamoipal Orchestra.