METROPOLITAN PATRIOTIC APPEAL.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 130, 28 November 1940, Page 7

METROPOLITAN PATRIOTIC APPEAL.

In the comparatively short period [since its formation the Band of the I Royal Now Zealand Air Force, thanks largely to its conductor (Flight Lieutenant H. Gladstone Hill), has become a remarkably fine musical comibination. This has been demonstrated in every city and town that the band has visited. On Sunday next, at the Basin Reserve, in conjunction with the Trentham Military Silver Band, the Rongotai Boys' Choir, the Fort Dorset Band, and several other leading city and Lower Hutt brass and pipe bands, the Air Force Band will give a programme of music that will be outstanding. The band will also give a display of "quick-step and slow marching. The Trentham Military Silver Band, under the conductorship of Lieutenant Pike,' will also present a programme. Between 2 and 2.30 the Fort Dorset Band will play selections of popular music. The Port Nicholson Band Wellington Tramways Band. Boys' Institute Band, Salvation Army (city and Wellington South), Wellington Artillery Band, Civic Band. Lower Hutt, Muncipal Band, Lower Hutt. Legion of Frontiersmen's Band, Caledonian Society Pipe Band, Wellington City Pipe Band, and Scots College Pipe Band will assist the Wellington Patriotic Committee's appeal in its endeavour to raise its quota of the £1,000,000 appeal.