A GALA DAY FOR FOXTON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1433, 5 August 1915, Page 3

A GALA DAY FOR FOXTON.

NEXT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON & EVENING, REGIMENTAL BAND X DRUMS VISIT. The Mayor has arranged a gala day for Foxton on Wednesday next and should the elements prove kind it will prove one of the biggest events yet held locally. Mr Fraser has a double purpose in view, viz., to entertain some of the men in camp and to supplement the Wounded Soldiers Fund. He solicits the co-operation of the townspeople in this movement and to-night will meet with the Patriotic Committee and all those willing to assist, in the Council Chambers at 8 o’clock. Mr Fraser has visited the camp and conferred with Colonel Tate, Capt. Bell and others and has arranged for the Regimental Band of 33 performers and the Drum Band of 16 performers and eight vocalists from the camp to visit Foxton next Wednesday, The bands will arrive by the 1.30 p.m. train 'and will parade along Wharf Street and down Main Street to the Triangle, where selections will be played at intervals during the afternoon. In the evening a concert will be held in the Town Hall and the programme will be provided entirely by the men from the camp. The Mayor states that the whole of the arrangements will be carried out by the local Patriotic Committee and he specially asks the co-operation of the ladies to suitably entertain the visitors. The Mayor states that he has received the utmost courtesy at the camp from Col. Tate, Capt. Bell and other officers and those concerned are enthusiastic over the visit to Foxton.