WAIMAUKU.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 27 December 1911, Page 3

WAIMAUKU.

TO THE EDITOB. Sir, —Many of you are aware I was willing to collect funds for a new piano for the Waimauku Coronation Hall. The rest of the committee objected at the time to having a piano fund separate from the Hall fund, but several of my friends (unasked even) sent me donations and I banked the money as a|nucleus for a new piano. "We are all liable to make mistakes, and I admit I mad» one in collecting for a piano fund, although I meant well. I objected to the committee paying £45 for a second hand piano, stating that if I had L 45 saved for a piano, I would get a new one, and it was against my principals to pay my friends' money into a thing I would not buy myself. However I have no desire to take anyone's money under false pretences, and am quite willing to hand back to my friends all moneys. The committee will not acknowledge a piano fund separate from the Hall fund, and as I have no wish to cause enmity over the matter and I know that one name on the piano fund has contributed towards the Hall fund already. I apologised to the committee some time ago for hurting their feelings by asking two (as I thought, friends) to collect for the piano fund, assuring them I had not intended offence. Outsiders had been asked to collect for the Hall by some of the committee, without the others being consulted and it never entered my mind that I was going against them in any way. Iwas anxious to help, and it sounds ridiculous to split straws like that. I bear the out-going and in-coming committees no illfelling whatever, its just an unfortunate mistake, and we are all liable to make them. I sincerely hope (as Mrs H. Johnstone said at the meetiug) that the incoming committee will benefit by our mistakes. Life is too short to quarrell about second-hand pianos or funds, and I am amused at the mountain that has grown out of a molehill. lam etc. Mrs Vincent Kerr-Taylor. " Glendale,,, Waimauku, 21-12-11.