H.M.S. DUNEDIN BAND INSTRUMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 2

H.M.S. DUNEDIN BAND INSTRUMENTS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sxu —Reference was made to the band instruments presented to 11.M.5. Dunedin at our committee mooting on Tuesday last. His Worship the Mayor, m making the presentation, is reported as having said that the instruments were a gift from the citizens of Dunedin, Is is not a fact that collecting lists wore sent to several country schools in Otago, and a certain amount collected from the children, and duly acknowledged in your paper? Tho sum collected from this source was probably small, but at tho same timo those boys and girls who did give, gave what they could, and deserve a little encouragement. I feel certain were this fact known it would be much appreciated by the officers, bandsmen, and crow of the ship.—l am, etc,, W. Froudfoot, Chairman Waitati School Committee. Waitati, May 7. ['There may have been a slip of the tongue on the Mayor’s part in slating that tho instruments were tho gift of tho citizens to H.M.S. Dunedin, but there is no misapprehension on the part of Commodore Beal, since, in a letter which he forwarded to tho Mayor, in acknowledgment of the gift, he said it was with much gratification that he had heard that school children had contributed a considerable sum of money towards the nnre.ha.so of the instruments.— Ed. O.D.T.]'