BAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4343, 1 December 1908, Page 3

BAND.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l have been waiting for some of our citizens to take up the Band question, but evidently they are apathetic in the matter. The idea that was mooted in I your columns seems to me the only solution, viz., pay the players. Might I suggest that a meeting be called to formulate a scheme and devise ways and means of securing the services of say a Band of twelve for the tourist season, in lieu of this could we not invest in some tinned music and hire or buy a large gramaphone (It would be such a novelty in Te Aroha). —I am, etc., Tom Donovan. To the Editor. Sir, —I 'read an article in the. Te Aroha News upon the sanitary state of certain portions of our town, more especially dealing with the lagoon. I know nothing about what is draining into it, but the l«st time I visited the spot brought to my recollection a lecture I heard in Auckland, delivered by a celebrated traveller, who had been to {the ♦* Holy Land.” In describing Jerusalem, and among other things he mentioned how misleading some of our hymns were. When he left home he was particularly instructed to visit that beautiful spot as described in that beautiful hymn, “ By cool Siloam’s shady rill, how sweet the lily grows.” When he inquired from the gentleman, who was showing him round, about the beautiful spot, he tried to persuade him not to visit it, but he replied that he dare not return home without having visited this beautiful spot. Eventually he agreed to go with him, but to his horror when he got there he found it the cesspool of Jerusalem, and really, sir, when I visited the Kenrick-street lagoon, I thought it was another of Siloam’s shady rills. ’ By the smell from it I should certainly say, to put it very mildly, it could not be very healthy, but then, sir, we differ so much in our tastes. Smollet in one of his early works describes certain people, who are so constituted that they would go miles out of their way to stir up a good smell, lam sure, sir, we could oblige snch a class, for we have the champion one in Te Alpha, and the sooner it is done away with the better for the people. There is plenty of filling in to be got very handy, ar d it should certainly be d ne, before there is mischief caused by that beautfiul Siloam at our door. — I ani, etc-,

John Williams.