THE LATE CONCERT AT TE AROHA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2323, 31 May 1887, Page 2

THE LATE CONCERT AT TE AROHA.

TO THE EDITOR. 'Sin,—Kindly "allow me space in- yo,ur columns t'o rub off some of tho "butter" your Te Aroha correspondent so liberally piled upon the performers at the concert given here'4'ast week in aid of the Church Organ' Fund. While giving your regular correspondent credit for reporting all mat. ters of local interest as a rule very fairly and impartially (so much so indeed that your paper is generally recognised and supported as the representative paper of this district), it is the generally expressed feeling that in this instance he has allowed his desire to "do honour " to the few visitors who promoted this entertainment to .overshoot the mark, and in piling on the butter 30 thickly, and making the comparisons he does, he casts a sjip' 1 much of our local talent. When he writes that the performance was " superior to anything of the kind that has ever been given here before by amateurs," he not only insults many of oijr local amateurs, who have always been ready to assist fop any deserving object, and who have op many occasions provided entertainments qiiitci equal, and, in the opinion of njany present, much superior to the one referred "to, but he also displays the fact either that he has not been present at many of the thoroughly: enjoyable entertainments that ■ have fnim time to time been given by local amateurs (of wjiom we have one or two quite as good as any professionals that'have ever visited Us), or that gritiicisiijg perforiflanpes of the kind is not exactly hjs forte. With all due respeet to those ivho promoted and : carried out the entertainment refgrped to,: I trust you will publish this in a spirit of; fair play to our local talent. —I am, yours obediently, m , : ;

One of the Crowd. 1?6 Af.yfev 20th May, 1887.