WHAT ABOUT HAWKES’?
Th? Wellington Garrison Band won the championship and also the Challenge Shield at the Palmerston North Band Contest of 1911. They used Hankes’ Excelsior sonorous band instruments —a complete set. In the first test piece this noted Wellington Ban I was allotted the maximum number of points, the judge declaring that he had never heard better playing, and commending in eulogistic terms the tone and blend. The Wellington Tramway Band, also using a complete sec of Hawkes' Excelsior instruments, won the B Grad*. The judge congratulated this band on their playing. These two suc- | cesses in Grade A and Grade B on such , a g'e.it occasion are worthy wins for I Hawkes’, whose instruments are preI eminent all over the world. Bands- | men. buy a s»-t of Hawkes’—there are honours and valuable prizes to be won with the n Write for catalogues. .Sola rsg 'tits- Th» Dresden Piano Company, Ltd.. Wellington. Local representati.es: A. Walters and C'o., Hasting-.’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 106, 19 April 1912, Page 6
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161WHAT ABOUT HAWKES’? Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 106, 19 April 1912, Page 6
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