BAND INSTRUMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4347, 25 November 1921, Page 2

BAND INSTRUMENTS.

Enquiry has elicited the information that the Paeroa Borough Council intends to sell the municipal band instruments, and that certain parties have inspected the instruments with a view to purchasing them. Many people are very sorry and indignant over the proposal, and think that the instruments should be kept until such time as the conditions are more favourable for the success of a band. Mr Geo. Fallon did his best for months to get the players up to a state of proficiency, but as they seemed to prefer pictures and football practice of an evening, and therefore only three or four regularly attended the practices, Mr Fallon’s task was a hopeless one, and the band, lacking a new leader, had to be disbanded. There does not appear to be much point in the argument that the instruments should be kept because they were, in part, paid, for by public subscription, seeing that the instruments so paid for are said to be worn out and obsolete; nor is the fact of the Paeroa Beautifying Society having started to erect a rotunda in the main street any particular reason for why the instruments should be retained. But for the sake of the future, it is certainly desirable that the instruments should be kept, so that should favourable conditions occur during the next two years, say, a band could be organised. Once the instruments are disposed of it will be a difficult thing to replace them, and for a town in which the people have great hopes of early progress, it is distinctly a retrograde step to sell the instruments. United protest by both petition and deputation should be made to the Council at once.