BRASS BANDS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 175, 11 May 1950, Page 4

BRASS BANDS

CENTENNIAL CONTESTS PRELIMINARY PLANS Preliminary arrangements for staging the centennial contest of the Canterbury Provincial Brass Bands’ Association at Ashburton were made at a public meeting in te Community Centre last evening. The date was tentatively fixed for October 7, and the contest will take place at the Domain. 4 The Mayor (Mr E. C. Bathurst), who was in the chair, briefly explained the purpose of the meeting, and it was decided, as a first step, to proceed with election of officers for the contest.

It was resolved that all present and those who had forwarded apologies should comprise the contest committee, while the following officers were also elected: Patron, Mr R. G. Gerard, M.P.; vice-patron, Mr Bathurst; president, Mr C. H. F. Maynard; vice-presi-dents, Messrs T. A. Bryant, J. Russell and L. L. Aitken; treasurer, Mr F. Pritchard; marshall, Mr Aitken; military judges, Captain Steele (Burnham) and party; pace counters, Messrs R. Hughes and I. Eyles; timekeepers, Messrs V. Bowman and D. Grant; instruments judge, Mr J. Russell; executive, all above and conveners of committees, together wgith Messrs R. Milligan, C. Frew, L. Davidson, P. Mowat, B. Thompson, G. Chilton and G. Randall, with power to add. Conveners of committees were appointed as follow: Grounds, Mr Maynard; reception, Mr J. Mcßrearty; advertising and programme, Mr J. Bruce. The appointment of secretary was held over in the meantime, a small sub-committee being set up to go into the matter.

On the suggestion of Mr Frew, it was decided to hold the contest on October 7, provided the Methven Trotting Club’s meeting was not held on that date, but that, if there was a clash with Methven, that it be held the following Saturday (October 14). Mr Frew also mentioned that the association had invited Mr R. J. Estall •to act as adjudicator at the contest. Warm applause greeted an announcement by Mr Maynard that, as a donation, his son had agreed to set up and operate the loudspeaker system at the contest.

Proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the Mayor for taking the chair.