THE CALL FOR FIELD-GLASSES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2587, 8 October 1915, Page 7

THE CALL FOR FIELD-GLASSES

TO-NIGHT'S CONCEttT-IN-AID AT THE TOWN HALL. A very special patriotic conccrt is to be given at the Town Ball this evening by the Military Band of the Earl of Liverpool's Own Regiment, and as a percentage of the receipts is to be devoted to the purchase of .binoculars for tho officers of the Regiment not already supplied with such essentials in war, it is hoped that there will be a large attendance. The band is said to . be. a first-class organisation of forty players, whose performances wherever they have beeu given have been much admired. The concert ,is to bo given in co-operation with the "Armies of Europe at War" Film Company, who happen to be the lessees of the hall for the evening, and who have consented to show some of their interesting pictures in between the' 1 musical" item's. Invitations are being forwarded to the Cabinet Ministers and Defence authorities to be present. At the conclusion of the concert the band is to be entertained at supper by the New Zealand Patriotic Society.

■ Mr. J. Lewis (secretary, of the Patriotic Society) makes a special appeal to all who liave. binoculars to give them to the society to be handed on to those officers who are not yet so provided. This appeal is being made as binoculars are almost unprocurable in blie shops of Wellington, owing to the demand made upon stocks during the past year, and the difficulty the importers aro experiencing in procuring fresh stocks;