THE CAMBRIDGE BAND. TO THE EDITOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2249, 7 December 1886, Page 3

THE CAMBRIDGE BAND. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — At the last meeting of the Cambridge Sports Committee, it was decided not to engage the brass and reed band that had nastily been called together by Mr J. B. Lamb. Yesterday I met a member of the oand, who told me that the whole of the bind and a great portion of the public blamed me for their want of success, and insinuated that 1 must have "crabbed " it at the meeting, or otherwise they would have received the engagement. As this impression is entirely false and is calculated fo do me an injury, I now lay before the pablic the whole of the transaction as far as I am concerned. At a former meeting of the committee, Mr Lamb's band was mentioned and I was asked if I had heard it, and if I thought it was j;ood enough to play at the sports ? I replied I had heard a portion of it (the whole of the members were not piesent at the practice I attended), and although it was rather rough at that time v everyone's lips being out of older through not having played for a long time, I thought that as there were five weeks for them to practice, by that time they would be proficient enough, adding that 1 4 ,ho'ight it our duty ■; > keep ?.<• iiiii.iina jiifL .« of the money to be spent in our o\\ n town. It was then proposed that another member of the committee and myself should hear the band and report upon it at the next 'fleeting. I again heard the band, and attended the meeting on Wednesday last, but was unfortunately late, and when I airived the music question had been settled, and was not even mentioned while 1 was present. That is all 1 have done in the matter, and I fail to understand how I can be accused either directly or indirectly of having "cribbed" Mr Lamb's band. Thanking you in anticipat'on for kindly inciting this,— l am, Sir, yours faithfully, T. Habtlby. Cambr -, Decmnber sth 1880.

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