CARNIVAL AT HASTINGS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 246, 18 November 1929, Page 5

CARNIVAL AT HASTINGS

GREAT EVENT COMING. A THREE DAYS' FETE. An announcement which will come as a pleasant surprise to many people of tlns district is that Hastings is to be treated to a three days' carnival on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Decernber 5, 6 and 7. It is being organised by tbe Hastings Citizens' Band, with whom the Napier Citizens' Band is generously co-operat-ing, and will be held under tbe patronage of Mr G. F. Roach and Mr H. 51. Campbcll, 51. P. The band. confidently predicts tliat it will be tbe best three days of fun ever offered to tbe people of this district. Its purpose is to provide funds to make the band independent of future calls for financial assistance and to enable it to compete at tbe 1930 New Zeaiand Band Clnunpiouships, at which it will dei'end its N.Z. Cliampionsbip title won this year at Wanganui. Pahiatua, which has a population of 1500, recently raised £580 for its band. With a correspondingly generous support, tbe Hastings Band should raiso £5800; and wby not? However, it will be well satisfied with rather less tlian £5800. In tlie last six years tlie band has raised, ahnost- entirely by its own efforts, enough to pay off a debt of £625, to buy new instruments and uuiforms, and to pay its way to compete at two Dominion champion sbips, also witli generous assistance, it has provided itself with a splendid band hall. It is hoped that the Hastings pubJic will now rally around and help an organisation that has done so much to help itself — and done it merely for the love of the game. As has already been said the public may rest assured it will be tbe gayest and most attractive entertainment ever offered to tbe people of Hastings. Furtbcr particulars will be advertised later, but in tlie meantime our readers woukl do well to keep the dates of tbe carnival in mimi. In connection with the carnival tbere will be fancy costiime torcliligbt processions and competitions of various kinds as advertised 011 page nine of this issue.