Spackman Packs

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 6

Spackman Packs

CCTJOOTS, mon! Here's a welcome IT tae ye the noo" — such is a Scottish welcome m the original barbaric. • , And the Scottier it is, the more music will it be to the ears of C. Roy Spackman, of Napier, who is moving to Dunedin to. be organist at Kriox Church, that grand old edifice that means' so much to the citizens of Dun- : ' edln— whether they belong to it or not. ■>■■•■-...• Naturally, Napier, doesn't take to the idea' at all kindly, . 0.R.5." has been what might very well be 1 termed a pillar of . ,the town. " '.;■/. ''>' . - Among: other things, .he has been deputy-mayor of Napier, and his share of public duties.: has always been a : bit above ;. the average. . '■■'■'..••.. A New Zealander born and a member of a widely- .. "~ known and respected family. Spackman's . life: has been a mixture, of music and ?' athletics. nappily lacking m that ''quality" which artists call temperament— which is to say that he, is very easy Jq Set on with — Spackman will . fit m very nicely in 'Dunedin. ; : :| It is rumored that he is already practising over such .pieces as "A Braw Bricht Mponlicht the -Nicht," but this may be just a rumor. v , : '