GRANITY BAND CONTEST

Grey River Argus, 23 November 1920, Page 6

GRANITY BAND CONTEST

(Our Special Reporter.) On Saturday afternoon the clerk of the weather saw to it that everything was just as it should be. All the ladies had on their best dresses, and the scene in the paddock was one no bo remembered. When the weather is fine on the Coast, it is fine; and no people enjoy fine weatjicr bettcT than the.} Coast people. Everyone seemed to have a day out. The children, keenly interested in the step dances, chatted and talked, amd pleased the people by their pvanks. Kunanga led off in the march to the paddocks, but their lack .of uniform told against them. • Granity Band followed, and the lack of uniforms for the Runanga Band became then so marked that the Runawga people should lake the hintl and supply their Band with uniforms at once. The West-port Garrison Band were last, arid seemed to have it all over 4hc others in marching. In the Quickstep Runanga again led off, and their lack of uniforms was now "more evident than ever. Much of the effect of their clever marching was lost owing to some of the players having spent years in the coal pit, where their bodies became twisted by the work. The Granity Band was the next, and, although their uniforms gave a much better effect ito the casual observer, their marching was very poor — bad lines seemed to be their principal order. The Garrison ' Band, for dress and style, seemed to have the advantage over the other two bands. Straight limbs, not twisted by toil, always look footter to military officers. Yet, notwithstanding all this, / the Garrison Band seemed to be well I ahead of the others' iv the march