BANDSMEN SETTLERS.
ARGYLE AND SUTHERLAND MEN. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, December 30. Just a year ago the Band of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders was the talk of most holidaymakers, and was proving perhaps the greatest attraction of the Dunedin -Exhibition. The kilted players themselves were favourites in the city, whose guests they were for over six months, and it was to be expected that there would be invitations to "come back and be one of us." That so many would accept is a development that might mildly surprise even the bandsmen's friends in hospitable Dunedin, but which is rather eloquently shown in passenger ships of immigrant ships that have recently arrived in Auckland. Already there are five or more of the bandsmen back in New Zealand, and others are on their second voyage to the Edinburgh of the South. Most of those who have returned are of the band s piping division, and peculiar packages that were carried on the vessels as personal luggage suggests that future Caledonian gatherings in the south will not lack the charms of incidental music. „ , . . The spare time of the new arrivals will be occupied in pursuit of such varied callings as baking, carpentering, fanning, photography and tailoring.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10808, 31 December 1926, Page 7
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204BANDSMEN SETTLERS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10808, 31 December 1926, Page 7
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