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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 17

A Musical Innovation • .>•>. ... Presenting a GIRLS' BRASS BAND Bandmaster Hodgkins, who instituted a girls' brass band of forty performers in Victoria, British Columbia, is at present forming a brass band, of girl instrumen-. talists in Auckland. He has world-wide experience in music and band instruments. Many applications have already been received, and practice has commenced, so that Auckland should very soon have its own Girls' Brass Band, absolutely the first of its kind in New Zealand. Why not give your girls a chance to prove that they can play brass band instruments just as well as boys> Bandmaster Hodgkins will be in attendance at our Store for the purpose of interviewing applicants, (0.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. daily. BANDMASTER HODGKINS AT ARTHUR EADY, LTD. 112 QUEEN STREET (Opp. Milne & Choyce).

The term "John Bull" as applied to England or an Englishman, originated with Dr. Arbuthnot, an English playwright and satirist. In one of hie pieces he employed characters from the different nations, using the name* of animals as their last names. The Eng lishman was named John Bull, the Hollander Nicholas Frog, the Frenchman Lewis Baboon. John Bull is the only term which has survived.. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for influenza colds.—(Ad.)

"The Goose Step" is a etraight-legged, etiff-kneed parade step of the German infantry soldier. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for children's Backing cougu.— (Ad.)

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