CONCERT AT LANSDOWNE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3207, 5 June 1909, Page 5

CONCERT AT LANSDOWNE.

SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION. Last night the Lansdowne Schoolroom was crowded with an appreciative audience, the occasion being a concert organised to provide funds for further improvemnets to the Lansdowne School grounds. It-was a very successful function, and the convenors have every reason to be satisfied with the result. A most acceptable and enjoyable programme was submitted, each item being well rendered, and received with rounds of applause. Mr P. L. Hoilings, Mayor cf Masterton, made a neat speech, in the course of which he referred to the object for which the concert had been arranged, and to the development of Lansdowne in scholastic matters.

The piogramme submitted was as i follows: — Pianoforte duet, Misses' McKenzie; song, Mr Drummoud; recitation, Mrs Dupre (encored); song, Mrs Tapley (encored); comic song, Mr Harry Hall (encored); song, Miss M. McKenzie (encored); song, Mrs Edwards; comic duet, Messrs H. Hal! and Parker (encored), pianoforte solo, Miss 13. Hood, A.T.C.L.; Maori haka, Clareville College Boys; song, Mrs Edwards; violin solo, Mr Reihana ■, Boyes; dons? Mrs Tapley; duet piano, Ml§se§ McKenzie; K comid feo«g> Mr Harry Hall (encored); Maorl ftaka, College Boys. The committee who had ihe a/' rangements ior the concert in hand are to be congratulated on the result of their efforts; they spared no trouble or expense in making the function ths success it was. The wish was expressed by the audience that this would-be the forerunner of many similar concerts at Lansdowne.