ELLIOT BENEFIT CONCERT.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1919, Page 8

ELLIOT BENEFIT CONCERT.

-r*-- —';i« ' 4 ' A SPLEIiBED SESP.ONSB. The-promotion the concert in aid i of the fund, for the widow' and family of the late Ifr&M. Elliot,have every reason to be gratified with the response •i ,ie public last night, when the Good Templar Hall was crowded with an audi- " -hlch showed its appreciation of the efforts of the performers in no unit tashion. The programme was a j miscellaneous one, in which many of the I best-known local concert singers partici- ■ patcd. Mr. P. Frederic opened with a I pianoforte solo, and songs were given I by Mrs. Wilkes, Misses Cocker and Ben- ! nett, Messrs Mac Donald, Bellringer, and Dunstan; duets by Miss Cocker, and Mr BaUringer and MeEsrs Dunstan and MaoDanald; Mr. Gadd contributed sev- . eral 'banjo selections, and Mr. iHartman ri.ijad an excellent reception for his elocutionary work. AH the performers wero encores&r, '-' At an''nt«tvai in the progrflmme Mr, S G. those present Ew_ jihttir suppiSrt»'and also a number of others_for.aßß : )Stimee mg the lodiea aid gentlemen who-con-tributed Messrs Collier p»-(l -e».<. tiev'pian'Oi -the ■TaranaM. Herald for/iree «dvertiging and tieksts. and theJJaily News for free advertising: Sj«cial'thanks espressed,to fto/«itMldDßn >of; the-?town schools .for . t^jspjendia.effort-in. tlio...matter of setting.ticlcefe, Ma returns night being, Vfest End £l7 to cnino), Central'-(613 Hs* es 12h, Mr. Shjjitli'. incidentally stated ■ j that; not >b«'* thrown 11 vw.. the, charitfejfif ?the" public, but. shmihjhe, ,Moyidlft4% by;«the'6tat«, ~ . , a sliorti!daj»e> t was held, to : which., a good number re- - ass inert,; tlie music being supplied by Mt». iSeorge. i Tt is expected the,effortflvill.net abont , SaX ' ■ "