BRASS AND PIPE BANDS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 22 May 1930, Page 9

BRASS AND PIPE BANDS

TARANAKI UNION. ANN UAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the Taranaki Brass and Pipe Bands was held in Stratford last night, Air. P. .Skog'lund (president) being in the chair. Tl»© bands represented were- New Plymouth Regimental, Opuuake, AVa-i----t-ara-, Eltham. Inglewood, Ha-wera and Stratford brass bands, and the Stratford and New Plymouth pipe- bands. Ale-ss-rs. AA\ Hawkins and H. CL A. Fox were- the Ha-wera delegates.

In moving the adoption of the- report and balance-sheet, the chairman said the prospects for the- coming year were good. Every band, except the Pipe Band, was affiliated! to the union, and he- hoped to see them all represented at the next conference. He congratulated the Eltham . Contest Committee- upon the. manner in which the last- contest had been -organised. Officers elected were: Patron Air. P. Thomson (Stratford) : president. Air. P. Skoglund (-Stratford) ; -secretary and trea-fiurei - . Air. H. Burme-ster . (Stra-t----ferd) ; auditor, Air. G. Carter. (-Stratford). Every band will nominate a delegate and a member to take- the nosition of vice-president of the union. These will comp-rise the executive. NEXT CONTEST. It was decided to hold the -contest at Ha-wera a,s- near -as possible to the third week in Alarch, Air. R. J. Es-t-all. A\ 7 oolstbri, Christchurch, will be invited to adjudicate for the bras-s bands. The. pipe bands will appoint their own judge. In the test and 1 in the- quickstep for th-.e contest- bands will have to choose the.i.r own music with a- limit- of twenty minutes. All*. AA r . Hawkins. Hawera, pointed nut- that the contest would be- held on YY-e-dnesdav to conform with the halfholiday there. That would not -suit some bands and lie- moved! that the Government he asked to declare a universal half-holiday in New Zealand. The motion was carried unanimously. GENERAL. Bands w?il he asked if th-ev will be prepared' to enter .solo and quartet- competitions: during the winter and in a niass-ed festival at- which a- -collection r-O'uhl be made to defray travelling oxTh.e- committee consisting of the 'omhictors of the- various bands revised the- rules and 1 reported that no change would b-3 made.