H.M.S. DIOMEDE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10509, 13 February 1928, Page 5

H.M.S. DIOMEDE.

- , FOUR TRIPS FOR CHILDREN. The Union S.S. Co. has offered to make four trips in the Tuatea to H.M.S. Diomede, taking as many school children as it can accommodate free of charge on the condition that the Company cannot be held liable for the “perils of the sea” or negligence in navigation. Trips are to be made this morning and tomorrow morning and afternoons at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The first trip is to be made by the Gisborne school. The order for the other schools is to be fixed at a meeting of headmasters this morning. Dr Lewie, Commissioner of the Boy Scouts, requests that scouts, while going out with their respective schools, appear in uniform. OPEN-AIR CONCERT BY SHIP’S BAND There was a very large and most enthusiastic Attendance at the Botanical Gardens last evening, when a concert was given by the ship’s band of H.M.S. Diomede, by kind permission, of Captain L. V. Wells. An excellent and well varied jirogramme, under bandmaster F. Ivirkby, late Royal Marine Band, was very appreciably received, and the unstinted applause reflected great credit on the band’s efforts. The programme was as follows: Hymn, “For all the Saints” (Barn by); march, “Washington Greys” (Grafield): valse, “Cinderella” (Raymond); fantasia, “Knight Errant” (Trussed); song (cornet solo) “The Lost Chord” (Sir A. Sullivan) ; fox trot, “Song of the Wanderer” (Donaldson); suite of “Indian Love Lyrics” (Linden); march, “The Vanished Army” (Alford); selection, “Chu Chin Chow” (Norton); fox trot “Oh, Babiy” (Donaldson); “Songs of the Sea” (Gerrand); fox trot, “Somebody’s Lonely”; march “Old Comrades” (Teike); hymn ‘Abide With Me” (North); “God Save the King.” During an interval the hand were entertained at, supper by the- members! of the Women’s National Reserve, under Miss A. L. Rees. Bandmaster Kirlcby desires to extend his sincere thanks to Messrs W. Chrisp and A. C. Coleman for their generous assistance in connection with the concert. VISITORS ENTERTAINED ; A DRIVE IN THE COUNTRY Yesterday a. number of non-com-missioned officers and men of H.M.S. Diomede were the guests of the Navy League to a motor run in the country. A halt was first made at Patutahi Domain where the P. and 1. picnic was in progress and in honor of the visitors a special navy race Was put pn the programme, the event proving most popular. Al ) e tour was afterwards continued to Kaiteratahi and Ormond and gt the latter township a halt was made at the Ormond tea gardens and the visitors were entertained at blackberries and. cream. Another detachment lrom. the warship will he the guests -of the Navv League to-day to motor trips on the Flats,