WOOLSTON BAND SUCCESS

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27917, 14 March 1956, Page 18

WOOLSTON BAND SUCCESS

HARD WORK AND CO OPERATION Hard work and the full co-operate of the players were the reasons g iv j by Mr D. Christenen. conductor a . the Woolston Brass Band, for * band’s success at the Dominion cha? * pionships in Invercargill. In the A grade championship, wu the Woolston band won. the field the biggest for some time, he “Last year there were only four bS entered in the A grade, but this vZ there were seven, and the tests the hardest they have been for a time.” Mr Christensen said that it was onh the second time he had conducted to band on a stage and the first time h. had conducted it in a contest. Aboc eight of the players were new to coo tests but they and the “old hands” had worked very hard and given him good co-operation. The contests were well organic and everything was done to assist to bands taking part, Mr said. The judging was also very and the judge had remarked that to standard of the bands was as high » anything he had heard in contest overseas. Congratulations to the Band of th. 3rd Armoured Regiment, which wm the B grade championship, were ex tended by Mr Christensen on behalf of the Woolston Band. U.S. MASCOT FOR BAND The Woolston Brass Band now tot a mascot in the United States—a bah named James Woolston McGovern, • Redwood City. The boy is a son of Mr Reginald McGovern, who toured through New Zealand on a photographic assignment ■ about two years ago, and Mrs McGovern. Mr McGovern also took recordings of A grade bands and becsiry , a friend of Mr B. J. Sutton, secretan of the Woolston Brass Band, with whom he has corresponded regular]’ since his return to the United States The baby, born recently, was giver his second name in honour of to band, says Mr McGovern in a letter to Mr Sutton. Mr McGovern hopes to meet Mr J. L. Hay, of Christchurch, presides! of the band, while he is in San Francisco. He will discuss with Mr Ha’ the possibility of the Woolston Bras Band touring the United States in< try to arrange for a sponsor. Included in the recordings of Nm Zealand brass bands, which Mr Me Govern took back with him. is a lonf playing disc by the Woolston Bras Band, now on sale in the United State