FIRST B GRADE TEST

Evening Post, Issue 48, 26 February 1936, Page 18

FIRST B GRADE TEST

WON BY GREYMOUTH BAND

BLIND BOY'S SUCCESS

• (By Telegraph—Press Association.) 1 NEW PLYMOUTH, February 25. ( The ■ Greymouth Municipal Band won the first B grade test in the New. j Zealand brass bands contest at Puke- ■; kura Park tonight. Taranaki Regimental was second, Hastings Citizens' ' third,' Wellington Boys' -Institute ■• fourth, and Waitara Ivlunicipal fifth. No points were announced by the judge, Mr. A. Baile. The Greymouth Band, the judge commented, gave an outstanding performance. Some of the bands found ■■ the test piece "Rienzi" (Wagner) too ~ difficult. ■ - . A feature of the solo events was the winning of the B;flat .championship by a practically .blind boy, Alan Morton, a member of : the Auckland Regimental and; Blind Institute Bands. The music ,was. memorised from Braille. The announcement of Morton's success was received witli prolonged applause, and the judge was astonished when he learned the winner ■ was blind. Results of solo and quartet test* are:— , B Flat Cornet.—A. Morton (Auckland Regimental), 95 points, 1; W. Stevenson (Woolston), 94 points, 2; F. Bowes (Timaru),93 points, 3. ■ ■ Quartet (Oberon).—Port Nicholson Silver No. 1, 86 points, 1; Woolston No. 1, 85 points, 2; Woolston No. 2, 82 points, 3. ' ■ ■'".'■'. ■'■ E Flat or EE Flat Bass Solo.—A. J. Mathewsori (Dunedin Artillery), 92 points; 1; X H. Jacobs (Wellington Boys'- Institute), 91 points,- 2; H. Buck (Wellington ■ Boys' .Institute),' V. Abraham (Timaru), 'arid R. Olnoy (Nelson Garrison), 90 points, equal, 3. The judge was particularly pleased with this. section. ■ ■ ' ■. ■ "in- the '.Pr^ss' Association report of Monday's "results; J. Foster (Wellington Tramways) -was credited' with equal second'place in the E 'flat cornet event. It'is now stated that G. Kaye (Port Nicholson) was awarded second placing, with E.- Robinson (Nelson), in this event. ;'