NEW ZEALAND BANDS
ALL GATHERED FOR CONTEST [Per United Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, February 23. _ There has been a large influx of visitors to New Plymouth for the Dominion band contest, which will open to-mor-row and continue till Saturday. Every hotel is fully booked, and accommoda- ■ tion elsewhere is at a premium. Pukekura Park, with its terraced amphitheatre, will be the scene of the major events of the contest. A number of bands arrived by special train' from th© south to-night, but a proportion of the entrants withdrew, mostly owing to financial difficulties. The following 12 bands will take part: A Grade.—Cairns Citizens (Queensland), Nelson Garrison, Port Nicholson
Silver, St. Kilda Municipal, Wanganui Garrison, Timaru Municipal, and Woolston B Grade.—Hastings Citizens, GreyMouth Municipal, Wellington Boys’ Institute, Taranaki Regimental, and Waitara Municipal. The adjudicator is Mr A. Baile, of Sydney, and the assistant adjudicator Mr T. Gray, of Wellington.
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Evening Star, Issue 22271, 24 February 1936, Page 14
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148NEW ZEALAND BANDS Evening Star, Issue 22271, 24 February 1936, Page 14
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