BAND AT SAILING
Cruise Ship Ceremony The Lyttelton Marine Band has offered to play a light programme at the wharf when the Swedish cruise liner Kungsholm leaves Lyttelton for Picton on February 4, a Sunday evening. Arrangements have also been made for the Christchurch Harmonic Society's choir to perform. The Lyttelton Marine Band, which was in abeyance for more than three years because of the prolonged illness of its conductor, the late Mr F. J. Oakley, was recently revived. According to the band’s president, Mr J. E. Adams, the band has so far only engaged in Christmas corolling. It will play at the Lyttelton Regatta next Sunday and be at a picnic at Quail Island on the next Sunday, when the Kungsholm sails.
Mr Adams said that a meeting of the band committee had unanimously agreed to offer the band’s services after the criticism was made regarding the lack of ceremony when the Magga Dan sailed for Antarctica.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31586, 25 January 1968, Page 12
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