OBITUARY
MR. GEORGE YARDLEY
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day.
The death has occurred of Mr. George Yardley, the piper, at the age The late Mr. Yardley had a remarkable career at competitions and was at one time amateur champion of Scotland. In 1911 he won the Highland Society of London's gold medals for the piobaireachd at the Oban and Inverness competitions. These are the highest awards in the piping world. He also won marches and strathspeys and reels competitions at Oban and Inverness. Before the Great War he visited Africa and gained championships there for three years in succession. In 1924, before he came to New Zealand, he again competed successfully at Oban, and the Cambuslang pipe band, of which he was pipemajor, gained second place in the world's championship competition/at Dunoon. In New Zealand, Mr. Yardley won* every competition of note throughout the country. In 1934 he again visited Africa and won the Johannesburg championship for four years in succession. He returned to New Zealand last April.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 11
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