WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1919, Page 3

WAITARA.

(Prom Our Own Correspondent.) At a meeting of the Waitara Municipal Band Committee held last evening to consider the present state of the organisation, it was decided that a3 the number of bandsmen at present is too small to carry on, to hand in to the Borough Council all instruments, uniforms, etc., but the belief was expressed that in a few months time the band would be resuscitated, as there would be several more players in the tow\i by that time. It is to be hoped that the belief expressed at the meeting will be realised and that a Municipal Band will again be started. If this is' so I trust that the public will support it whole-heartedly, as without generous public support the players get disheartened, and it must be remembered that bandsmen put in a lot of time and get nothing out of it. Hearing that the sea had encroached considerably on the land on the East' beach, I went down to look at it last night and found that the statements I had heard were quite true. The ladies' shed, which was at least two chains from high water mark when it was built, is now only about six feet from the edge of the bank, which is about twelve feet high, and should there be a heavy sea running and wasli more of the bank away the shed would inevitably go, unless it is shafted back. The Arapawa is on the beach about one chain from the end of the wall shoreward, and with the stern about ten feet from the wall. She is lying broadside on to the sea and is being gradually carried further up the beach. A meeting of returned soldiers is to be held in the Fire Brigade Station tonight for the adoption of rules, etc.