MUSIC ON SHIPS
Passengers on long sea voyages expect music to help them spend the time, and a number of the passenger liners in the New Zealand-Great Britain service carry ships' bands of about six instrumentalists. The intercolonial Jinexs have hitherto contented themselves with electric gramophones and wireless for their music, but on tho last few voyages the Union Company's steamer Monowai has carried a band to provide music for dances and during the meal times, and will probably be kept on for the summer season. The Huddart, Parker motor-ship AVanganella will have a baud on board when' she arrives at Wellington on Monday i'rom Sydney, but it is not known whether it will bo retained. However most of the travelling public, and those who see them off at the wharf, have vivid (or sad) memories of the music of farewell—when tho streamers are broken as the ship pulls out, and handkerchiefs aro waved, and, from the upper deck comes the notes of a'cornet in "Till We Meet Again," "Farewell to Thee," and finally "Auld Lang Syne." 6
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 20
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178MUSIC ON SHIPS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 20
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