Rivalry

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 15, 7 February 1884, Page 3

Rivalry

Tke ether day we mentioned that the Town Hall had been engaged for a local entertainment on Easier Monday evening; "We are informed, that since this was made known another party has reselved to get up an opposition entertainment in the Foresters' Hall. We are sure ire shall hjhexpresting the* opinion «f every seisible individual when we lay that we sink. eerely hope no' such thing will be- attempted, arid we say this without the •lightest- intention i» prejudice either of the projects one way, or the other. Still wt are certain the attempt to get up two populate tertaihnients the same night in * small place -like Feilding could only result in failure to one or the other, if not to both, and biside"the look of the thingwould be sure to produce a certain amount of ill feeling. The Feilding Brass Band engaged the Town Hall a long time ago, not onlv for Easter Monday, but also for the Queen's Birthday, and as the proceeds of the entertainments which will be given under their auspices will be virtually public property, the. members receiving no personal benefit whatever, we think they are entitled to the precedence as it regards patronage, whatever may be the relative merits of the other project, about which at present we know nothing. For anything we Itnow-it may.be equally enr tiH^ to that which no doubt it would reoeive if lwld on some other