THE PROPOSED CARNIVAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4456, 31 August 1909, Page 2

THE PROPOSED CARNIVAL.

(To the Editor.)

Sin,—l see by your report of the above meeting that Mr Tom Donovan was both surprised and disappointed. Mr Donovan’s bump of self-importance is evidently very largely developed, but for all that I do not think that this is his f :st nor will it be bis last disappointment. If I remember right when he first suggested, through the medium of the News, the enormous advantages to be derived by holding a Carnival, he stated he hoped Te Arohaites would put aside all little party quarrels and work hand in hand to ensure the success of the Carnival. I doubt not his sincerity in wish'ug all to br y the hatchet, and to go along to the meeting and listen to him grace the footlights and lay down his scheme. Things did not go to please him and he was disappointed—and surprised. He admitted it. Surprised because a Society of between 60 and 70 members could not forego a practise to attend the Caic'val meeting, That being so, I do not think we should place the Captain’s epaulettes on your shoulders, Tom, for you had five other nights—outside the one set aside by the Choral Society—for which to hold your meeting. You displayed bad generalship. Music should, and does take a prominent part at all Carnivals, and the Te Aroha Society should have been considered.— 1 am, etc., Music.