CAMOUFLAGE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2105, 20 March 1920, Page 3

CAMOUFLAGE.

o THE SCHOOL PIAXO. “AIADE IX BKRLIX." When last year’s local State School Committee was offered, by a local resident, a second-hand “Bohm” piano, made by a well-known German manufacturing (inn, for £ls, it was decided lo accept same, provided an expert opinion was lirs! obtained as lo its suitability and value. Air Henderson, a piano experl, reported favourably, and quoted its value at from £BO to £BS. The purchase aroused (he patriotic indignation of three members of the then Committee, two of whom upon failing lo rescind Ihe motion to purchase, resigned from the Committee as a protest, mid submitted (he matter to (he Boat'd, in the meantime a petition was circulated calling upon the Chairman to resign, and feeling' ran high in Ihe community, and the affair was quoted by the press throughout the Dominion, (he press throughout the Dominium more, or less in lighter vein. Tim Education Board passed a resolution with a salvo of pyrotechnic patriotic eloquence, refusing permission to allow a piano of German manufaeliu'e lo he placed in the school. There is no need to resurrect details, as tin 1 whole of the regret (able affair is no doubt still fresh in the minds of Ihe public. At a meeting of the present Committee in February last, Mr Kellow (chairman) said he had the offer locally of an .English piano at £9O, which he recommended the Committee to purchase. ’With one dissentient' vole (Mr Coley) it was decided to purchase (he piano, upon which the Education Board were to, and did, pay a subsidy of £ for £. The piano was placed in the school, and while being tuned on Thursday last its Get mail Origin was discovered. The maker’s name is “Oscar Kohler, Berlin,'’ and ihe number of I lie piano is 383581; the English eatuouilage name, in gold lettering on the front, board is “William Raymond, London.” In fairness lo those of the old Committee who were bitterly assailed, we make these facts public.