OUR BOROUGH BAND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2090, 14 February 1920, Page 3

OUR BOROUGH BAND.

(To the; Editor.) Sir. —II seems to me that the •Mayor and Cr. Bryant have about knocked the last nail in the coffin of our local band, which has been a very desirable and obligin'? institution to Boston and the surrounding district. The council has indeed been out of order, as the Band’s secretary points’out, and he appears to have made the Major Peel eager to rescind some resolution. The Baml is composed of good.fellows, who have been working harmoniously and giving valuable assistance. Why doesn’t the Mayor and Cr. Biwant reader —T ought to <ay “suffer” practical assistance ? Get themselves yoked to the' symbrels and jyngals, like true-spirited bandsmen, and blow ns sounds that snort —sonorous, and with viberalo Pnryendo —from out those double diapason-looking funnels of the Borough's big brassoprol'undo bombardons, having a fearful array of lubi's,■ like a twisted trombone? ".ioinmie’’ could find room for these men in the rani’s of Ihe'Tixleen and eight penny” ill-paid band. Let them tb-sl blow up the trumpets, and then we might, excuse; (hem for some ton-gue-banging complaint aflerwards. No doubt during the bandmasters trying illness his band had been sharing the fate of the ship which had lost its steeling gear. (MeIhinks I hear (he voice from inside the meal wagon: “Never on yer life!") Though the Mayor argues otherwise, personalis’ ! agree with Cr. Rand, in that the Band is not a public body, as is the case with I lie Council. Councillors have no right whatever to force the individual conscience of these bandsmen, using these men like “joints" (meat or otherwise) to swell the shekels of a private picture concern; almost “'thumb-screwing” them, to act as tools. I believe that Eoxlon possesses four bund instructors, all good .men, too : Messrs (iolder, \\. Ebbed, Betty, and Captain Boffin. I wonder what: their views are on this open question? These four men, I believe, have had “some” experience in hand circles—too wide, 1 own, to be dictated to by the inexperienced in these matters. —1 am, etc., RAGTIME BAND. (To the Editor.) Sir. —I would like to draw (he attention of the police to the furious driving indulged in by certain “motor hogs” in the borough. Euless something is done to regulate 1 lie speed, there will be a dreadful accident. I admit, Sir, that there are some careful drivers, but there is one in particular, and I am not going to mention sex, who requires a lesson. —Yours, etc., NUKE SAID. ■