AIR FORCE DISPLAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 5

AIR FORCE DISPLAY

CEREMONY AND MUSIC

An outstanding feature of the Royal New Zealand Air Force passing-out ceremony at Rongotai on Sunday will be the open-air performance of the band of the Force. A final rehearsal of the music to be performed was given yesterday, Flight Lieutenant Gladstone Hill conducting. The numbers played on this occasion included several essentially national works, among them the "Airman's Hymn" (words by May Rolands; music by Blanche Thompson, of Wellington)—a hymn in which the audience will be invited to join. The Native instrumental numbers rehearsed1 were "Maori Rhapsody" (Lew Jones) and "Tangi" and "Waiata Poi," both by Alfred Hill, the New Zealand composer. The "Tangi" will be performed for the first time as arranged for a full military band by Flight Lieutenant Hill.

The band concert on Sunday will begin at 3.30 p.m., and will be preceded by a fall-in of all squadrons, wing parade, ceremonial march display, and the passing-out ceremonial.

The airmen will be reviewed by the Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones), who will take the salute, and with him will be Air Commodore H. W. L. Saunders, M.C., D.F.C., M.M., R.A.F., Chief of Air Staff, Wing Commander E. G. OlsQn, Mr. T. A. Barrow, Secretary of the Air Department, and Flight Lieutenant S. M. Kirkcaldie.