FOURTEEN BANDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1939, Page 6

FOURTEEN BANDS

A BIG DISPLAY

MARCHES AND MUSIC

The equivalent of what would have been a welcome to the Welsh Guards Band, planned by the Wellington Bands' Association as a gesture to the National Exhibition, will fee a massed; bands display in Athletic Park on Sunday week. Eight brass and six pipe bands will take part, said the president of the association today. There will be in all 350 performers. All children accompanied by adults, and soldiers in uniform, would be admitted free. • The Governor-General and Lady Galway and the Government House party are to arrive at 3 p.m., and all bands will parade in front of the grandstand and play the first six bars of the National Anthem. After this, the Institute Band is to take up its place in the rear. The Port Nicholson Band will march from near the grandstand on the south side, past the length of the stand, wheel at the northern end, and come to the halt on the western end. ' The other bands will follow this route in the order, Tramways, Hutt Civic, First Battalion, • Artillery, Hutt Municipal, Legion of Frontiersmen, Wellington Boys' Institute. When the last band has ' halted the' bands will commence s a march, one behind the1 other, all playing "Knight of the Road." They will then march along the western bank and then left-wheel into line facing the grandstand, v When they, halt the pipe bands will go through the same manoeuvres, in the order, Caledonian Society, Regimental Pipes and Drums, Police Highland Pipe, Scots College, Hutt Valley Pipe, City of Wellington Pipe, From this point onwards spectacular movements will be undertaken by all the bands individually and collectively. . :