Cash for choristers
Sing Aotearoa was granted $1000 to support their 1993 choral festival, at last Friday's Ruapehu District Council meeting. The festival, to be held Labour Weekend in Ohakune and on Mt Ruapehu, is expected to draw up to 1000 singers from around the country and possibly overseas. More than $250,000 would be spent by partici-
pants in the area while they were here, claimed festival co-convenor Graham Hoffman. The New Zealand Choral Federation sought $10,000 in support of the event. Cr Ellen Gould said the council should support the festival as it was a tremendous event which was already known nation- wide and overseas.
Mayor Garrick Workman said it was effective in marketing the Ruapehu district. Councillors were told the event did not fit the agreed criteria for such a grant to come from the marketing budget, but that small sum could come from the Extraordinary Grants vote, in recognition of the value of the event to the district.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 500, 24 August 1993, Page 7
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161Cash for choristers Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 500, 24 August 1993, Page 7
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