THE CITY BAND PRIZES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 48, 7 March 1901, Page 2

THE CITY BAND PRIZES.

TO THE BDITOR, Sin, The announcement tbat the m :i:ioy p: iz s for the winners jit the reflO'".t Cry Band Sports would be n iid at tno Imperial Ho'ei at 8 o'elcck or; I u sj iy evening, has been the causa i;f grave c omment among those who d>.sire to turn' <i this boys agiinst everything that littruefs to the precincts of the | Some of the echoolhoysl tiemselvej drew attent'oa of their parents to th\t notice, arid great surprise i-; expressed that sum of the member, of that Sports Committee moutci have failfd to succossfcilly protew against the arrangement;. The Ci y Band, whose able service®, the public so well have been liberally a<sit}ted by all classes, and by those of all shades of opinion, and in re'.urn it would have bean a simple act : of courtPKy on the part of their Sports Committee to have avoided the friction which may p ; ;s,ibly be eauaed hy their oversight. The hour a,nd place foe receiving the prize-money wer<i alike unsuitable for the boys. Furctioaa m conrip.otion with flport in which our 1 y° ut hs engage should never bp held at hotels, for it is too well-known that the first tompfatioa to drink and smoke bes-it many a promising youth at thisj places an suoh occasions, who i would noyf r otherwis-3 he.ve gone there. ; —I !*W, etc., Citizrs.