QUEEN ALEXANDRA BAND
The Queen Alexandra Band, attached to the Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifle Regiment, has decided that it will not compete at the band contest to be held in Wellington in February, writes "The Post's" Wanganui representative. The band has not attended a New Zealand contest since the Nelson contest in 1937, and, until the war broke out, had every intention of competing in 1940. Soloists, however, will enter for the band competitions.
The Queen Alexandra Band started as the Trinity Young Men's Institute Band, with the late Mr. L. Spurdle as conductor. Then it became the Wanganui City Band, under the same conductor. The band changed its name again when Mr. George Buckley took over the conductorship, to Queen Alexandra's Own. and today a brother of the first conductor, Mr. A. R. Spurdle, wields the baton.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1939, Page 5
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