PONSONBY BOYS BAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 295, 13 December 1922, Page 13

PONSONBY BOYS BAND.

T0 TOUR NEW ZEALAND. LEAVE? ALTKI.AN'I) CHRISTMAS DAY. An important stage in the history of the Ponsonby Boys' Brass Band will be leached on December 25, when it will leave Auckland on a "rand tour of the Xorth and South Islands. 'Die hand will |c absent seventeen days, returning to Auckland on January 11. The personnel of the hand consists (f thirty-one hoys. Mr. Fred. .1. Lawn (conductor), and six committeemen, including secretary ami manager. The land is-instrumented with Besson's A grade silver instruments. British maS>. eoßting over £1000, and they hope to give music lavishly during Christmas aii.l Kew Tear. Concerts will he held at Wellington on December 20 and 27; Ashburton, Decejnber 28: Oamaru, December 29; Dunedin. Decemlier 30 and II; Timaru, January 1: Temuka, JanuIty 2; Christchurch and suburbs, January 2, 3. and 4: returning to Wellington and suburbs on January 5. 6, and 7; Masterton. January 8: Fahiatua and Palmerston, January 0: finishing at Taumarunui on January 10. At each of the towns drilling and smart marching music will he carried out during the afternoons, and rotunda concerts at Bight. The objective of the band comnittec is to create interest in band music fa the various centres and explain their System of band administration to anyone interested in starting brass band i'nitrnmentation with boys. The expense of the tour is naturally a heavy one. The band committee tupe" aS hi former tours, to recover the w-'iolc of the cost by collections at concerv.s. the effecting heing undertaken by men and not by the band boys. The band is leaving Auckland with recommendations from his Worship the Mayor, the notary Club, the Minister of Education, and th» goodwill of every section of the community.