BANOS CONTEST

Evening Star, Issue 21655, 26 February 1934, Page 1

BANOS CONTEST

ST. HILDA WINS QUICKSTEP FIRST IN MUSIC AND MARCHING [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 24. Magnificent marching and fine playing won for the St. Kilda Municipal Baud the A grade military display and quickstep at Athletic \Park on Saturday. Twenty-two bands, eleven in the A grade and eleven in the B grade, competed during the afternoon, and treated the crowd of between 10,000 and 12,000 to a splendid exhibition of precise manoeuvring, the work of some of the A grade, bands being very spectacular. St. Kilda gained highest points both for music and marching, being 4J points ahead of the next band, Invercargill Civic, which won the contest last year. Invercargill’s marching was quite as 1 good as, if not better, than St. Kilda’s, but this band lost valuable marks through setting too fast a pace. The B grade contest was won by Wellington Boys’ .. Institute, which gained a clear-cut win over - Southland Battalion and Westport Municipal, Results:— A GRADE.

S £ c .2 73 w' o s o St. Kilda Municipal ... 180 126 306 Invercargill Civic 179* 122 301* Port Nicholson Silver ... 1764 119 2954 Queen Alexandra’s Own 170| 125 2954 Wanganui Garrison 1704 123 , 2934 Nelson Garrison 172118 290 Palmerston North Garrison 172’ 316 288 Hawera Municipal ... ... Wellington Municipal 164* 121 ■ 28S| Tramways ... 1584 124 2824 Timaru Municipal Auckland Waterside 160* 120 2804 Workers ... 161 113 274 B GRADE Wellington Boys’ Institute ... 170| 107 277| Southland Battalion 1694 102 2714 Westport Municipal 165 106 271 Hastings Citizens 165| 105 270* Dannevirke Municipal ... 165* 100 265* Masterton Municipal 1614 101 2624 Jupp’s Silver .... ... ... 1524 109 2614 East Coast Regimental ... - 1534 103 2564 Wellington Artillery 1464 108 2544 Christchurch Municipal ... 140 HO 250 1st Battalion, Wellington 144J 104 248J