MILFORD SCHOOL CONCERT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 320, 23 November 1880, Page 2

MILFORD SCHOOL CONCERT.

We are pleased to have to report a very successful reauli to the entertainment held at the Milford Sahool-hause .onr Friday last. The decorations of the room were suitable and picturesque, the attendance good and the performance everything that Qould be desired. We noticed'many of our old friends from Temuka and neighborhood taking part in the programme, and we were right glad to see that the services of the band of the No 1 Temuka Volunteers were utilized on the occasion. The feature of novelty at this gathering was the part in the performance taken by the Milford School children themselves. Hitherto, at the Milford entertainments, the performance has been exclusively in i the hands ot experts of mature age ; at J this, however, the children were made to take their share in entertaining the audience, and, considering the very short time that they have been manipulated in the matter of music, we think that all who were present will admit, that they did fairly well; they certainly did their very best, and that justifies the expectation that with the advantage now in their way in things musical, they will finally arrive at something like perfection. Their teacher also evidently enters heart and soul into the spirit of his undertaking. He is a man apparently well-fitted for the position in which he ia placed, and both aa a singer and reciter deserves favorable mention. These periodical gatherings of old and young throughout the district, are bound to produce good fruit. We offer our congratulations to the School Committee and the head teacher at the success of their effort, and we desire to thank the performers of all ages for the passing of a very agreeable evening. The Milford Sohool Room is altogether too small for the purpose, but as time goes on doubtless some better provision will be made for the holding of such entertainments. We are told that the evening was wound up by a dance, in which no doubt the grave and the gay got inextricably mixed up, and with which all who were able to dance, and did dance, came away perfectly satisfied. And when another of these very rational and desirable entertainments is advertised to take place we shall certainly be there to look on and listen.