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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 June 1925, Page 9

Band Sunday wa.s observed art. the Mehtodiist Church at Haw era yesterday, and interest was .lent to the occlusion by the: parading of the Municipal Bland. There waw* a good muster of bandsmen, under Lieut. Fox, while the members' of the church congregafcion. attended in force. The playing of the band mid the organ harmonised nicely, and produced .a good effect in the leading of the singing of well known and favourite hymn®. Bandsmlaii Osborne, in additiioh played a cornet solo, “Nearer .My .God to Thee.” The Rev. W. J. Oxibrow occupied the pulpit, and in the course of his address made, references to the benefits conferred o-n <a town by such an organisation as the band, and of the self-sacrificing, self-denying obligations that memiibem imposed on themselves in. order to reach. proficiency in their chosen tasks. John Stewart Reid, aged 13, was killed at Dunedin on Saturday through his bicycle skidding, throwing him under the wheels of a loaded dray. The police of Wanganui have received word that William O’Reilly, aged 36, has been missing from his camp at Kerekau Downs, on the Wanganui river, since Tuesday last. He left his hut as his mates were retiring, and when he did not return they made a search, finding truces of a man having fallen over a cliff on to a papa ledge and thence into the river.