PIPE BAND CONTEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 15

PIPE BAND CONTEST

APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES

A meeting of the executive of the Wellington-Hawke's Bay Pipe Band Centre was held on Saturday evening, there being present Pipe-Major T. G. Bodding (president), Pipe/Major V. J. Nicholson, Piper W. Allen (Palmerston North), Pipe-Major C. Stewart (Wellington Caledonian), Drum-Major M. R. Price (Scots College), Pipers G. Dick (Feilding), J. Taylor (Wellington Regimental Pipes and Drums), W. Smith (Hunterville), Messrs. C. Stewart (Ruahine), and M. Gray Nasmith (secretary). . .'•...

The following officials were appointed for the contest at Palmerston North on January 23:—Judge of music, Mr. A. Barclay; judges of military drill, Captain G. M. McGaskill, StafT-Sergt.- ---< Major J. Ryan, Major J. A. Mowett, StafF-Sergt.-Major A. Holmes; judge of dress and instruments, Mr. A. McSkimming;- judge of paces, Lieut. S. Wilson; .. supervisors, Messrs. J. S. JenkinSon and A. McDonald; marshal, Mr.' C. Voss; timekeepers, Messrs! J. WestonSmith and G. Short; reception committee, /Messrs. V 7. Allen, C. Cronin, F. Duckworth, J. Thompson, T. Rollin, A.' Hickmott, and R. Emmott.

It wad resolved to open the contest with the quickstep at 1.30 p.m., followed by the test selection and the drummajors' display. The street parade of the competing bands will start from the Municipal Opera House, Palmerston North, at 1.30 p.m. Final arrangements for the contest were left in the hands of the secretary and the Palmersion North delegates.