NORTH ISLAND BRASS BAND ASSOCIATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 64, 16 March 1910, Page 6

NORTH ISLAND BRASS BAND ASSOCIATION.

- t,-: - y-, ■/• ■-.:.-.-1,--.;-■ .-;.:■:_:fei The satisfactory position, of c. Xorti) Island Brass Band Association, both as. re- 7 gards finance and .. h_nerical strength, is .-■-,': ! shown in the annual report • 'and balance---' | sheet for the year ending 1900, which 77 now presented to the members of the AsI sociatlcm. . D.fi-j; tfee year ihe following; ! bands have joined the- _sSdCiation:—The j j Wellington Tfainway Band, : tiie Cambridge J' Town Band, t—> o_>u—ike BSifeS Band, and : the Wiltsi_ Mhhi iasisl Band, which' brings ■_ i the number of bands i__— .to the- As-.';,; sociation up to SO. This year, for thfe first' 7 'time In -the history .of "tie - Association. 7' and thrtfdgh the courtesy of Messrs. Besson _tfd C 6., Of _j—idofi, t_e BessOn shield in the i. gride competition :is to be. won OntrightS and become th absolute pn>3erty Of . the | champion hand for 1916. 'fhegodd nameS earn©! by the Association IS W_il shown, ii' by t_.-_u"mb«S: Of toii— rtes-S.- 16 how .liiwj affairs are eon—icted and requests for copies :| of its rules. One of the moit - enthusiastic =_ and ener_ets- of eOi— .■at, the Association retires this, j'ear, in the: person of Mr. M. Cohea, tvho has held.offlce'as pre- I Sidefit for Ihe pisr twcl.irsl'-.^-k.■ As- I j sociation will, therefore, be lied-upon to - I j elect another president at the nest annual | I I meeting. It _ al—> desifed _rat the'number j of vice-presidents, shoul.d be Increased, and-. 1 the report suggests thai each a2——ted band shOuld obtain tWo'_6inbers from each dis- : trict, and so strengthen the funds and the: footing of the A*s«cKitl6tl. ■ —_c ftceTpts for.:'? 19* _._—*—-£-_ to £I—. 13/, __d the sspehdi^ ture to £li>4 14/11. _. , w;