ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
[We are at all times ready to give expression to every shade of opinion, bat in no case do we hold ourselves responsible for the sentiments of our correspondents.] HAWERA BAND FUND. (To the Editor of the Patea Mail.) Sir, — In your Saturday’s issue you published a local calling attention to a performance given by the Opunak© Minstrels in aid of the Hawera Brass Band. Would you kindly inscrtthefollowingexplanation.
The band, being some £lB in debt the township, as owners of the instruments, being morally responsible), wa accepted with gratitude the offer of those gentlemen to play in onr aid. The town fairly supported the entertainment, which resulted in a £l4 bouse. After deducting the expenses, consisting of rent of Hall, &c., the sum of £2 2s 6.1 has been • handed to the band as representing the baiaucei. Bykindly inserting the above, the Township will see that we are still in want of the money; and future aspirants for assistance will see that it is not an unmixed blessmg to be pulled out of the mire by those gentlemen—the Opunake Minstrels. —I am, &c., HORACE R. BAKER, Member Band. Hawera, September 19, 1879.
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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 461, 24 September 1879, Page 2
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195ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 461, 24 September 1879, Page 2
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