To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cutxa Daly News"
Smny—The delightful and beautifully polished letter signed Marc T Grzzx is timely, Until another really good news story breaks, why should we not unleash the violently aggressive ldefenders—it would be silly to say [suppor!srs—ot the Municipal Orchestra after a little preliminary goad~ uring their visit in Hongkong, Losing for the first time the Shanghai Lawn Bowls team was defeated by the Police Recreation Club by 22 shots to 19. Shanghai was represented by W. J. MacDermott (skip), A. M. Gutierrez, W. J. Brierley and K. L, Swartzel. usual, taking the Hong standard into ing.
Unnecessary fuss would be spared the general public if we could arrange for their gushing and adulatory garblings to be heard in the frst place in camera, by a nice select committee fof deaf mutes. This, however, is probably not practicable, Even Shanghai, it is difficult, for all that vast majority out of reach of the proper strings, to make such convenient arrangements, T can't agree that we should be so niggling as to stop at a couple of decorations for the well pald lea: of our professional orchestra, when for a odd eleven dollars a head we could give each musician a nice shiny medal, or for only a few dollars more Wwe could combine real generosity with sound economy by naming a smallish Inconspleuous street after teach one, Then, while they were sti dazed, we could shoo them off the public pay roll.
desperate _alternative—surely thoroughly unreasonable—is to retain the more or less ever-welling source of our aesthetic bliss, and firmly insist that the customers defray the cost of their show before they meander through the portals, Three new records were made.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.
