CORRESPONDENCE - A COMPLAINT
(To the Editor of The Gippslad Times)
Sir, Being a visitor to Sale, I was very much surprised and disgusted at the exceedingly bad taste displayed by the Sale Brass Band on the occasion of the visiting pipers from Melbourne marching to the Victoria Hall, the band being silent until the pipers had rounded the corner of Macalister street leading to the hall, playing their national music, when immediately the band struck up, and by so doing showed extreme discourtesy and caused hideous discord. I certainly think that they might have waited until their visitors had entered the hall, and by so doing have shown a little good manners, especially considering the disappointment they (the pipers) had already been subjected to on account of bad weather.
Yours, etc.,
AN ENGLISHMAN. Dec. 9, 1886
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