A GERMAN PIANO.

Otaki Mail, 28 February 1919, Page 2

A GERMAN PIANO.

PUBLIC MEETING AT FOXTON. A public meeting of Foxton rerf-H dents was held on Tuesday night to dis-lp cuss the acceptance by the school com-lf mittec of the offer of a sccond-u'audfl piano of Gorman manufacture to rc-M place the one, lost by the fire at tliog school. The Mayor presided, and there* was a large attendance. The whole facts were explained tali the meeting by the chairman of IheH school committee (Mr J. K. Hor-a-H blow), who was accorded a good rccep-|§ tion, with the exception of a icw intcr«B jections. A motion was carried refusing to < .- dorse the petition culling upon theflj chairman of the school committee toi resign. Another resolution carried was a3|| follows: "That this meeting afprovCiß of the action of a majority of the con;-B mitteo in accepting the generous offer i made by a patriotic residen-t to roplacfl the piano destroyed in the fire, bat 1 urges the committee to substitute ;,.: . instrument of British manufacture, if § Messrs Kello-.v and MeMurray provide || the money required over the £4,)La/! +.: 1 out."' their letter to the Board." On the motion of the Mayor, it Kit 1 decided that the chairman of the Wsv ganui Education Board be asked to unreservedly withdraw his statement pre- | ferring indecent pictures to a German 1 piano in the school, and failing that (-3 I tender his resignation to the Board. i