I refer to ‘Fifty years ago’ (The Sunday Times, June 19), reproducing extracts from the issue of June 18, 1961. In the item entitled ‘Band club not allowed to take part in festa’, it was stated that the parish priest of Siġġiewi, Fr Paul Attard, refused his permission for the St Nicholas Band to participate in the village feast.
However, Fr Attard was not the parish priest involved, since he served as Siġġiewi parish priest from 1957 until February 1960, which is well before the incident referred to.
Editor’s note: ‘Fifty years ago’ faithfully reproduced the item published in The Sunday Times of Malta of June 18, 1961.