BLIND INSTITUTE BAND

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 156, 17 June 1936, Page 8

BLIND INSTITUTE BAND

North Island Tour This Year Following upon a most, successful tour last year, principally of the South Island, the New Zealand Institute for the Blind is arranging a North Island tour for October of this year. It ts proposed that the parly should visit the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, East Coast, Hawke's Bay, Wairarapa, Taranaki and King Country towns. The cheerful, happy confidence of these proficient musicians makes an irresistible appeal to their audiences, and has made them popular guests where' er they have gone. The recent outstanding aehie'emeni of the band's y oung corn.etist, Mr Allan Alorton, in carrying off the open cornet championship of the Dominion at the New Zealand Brass Bands Contest has been a convincing demonstration that, in music, the blind are under no handicap and can attain to the first rank. Now in its tenth year, the Blind Institute Band has gained a high reputation for the quality of its work. In addition to borough councils a number of local societies are taking in hand the making of local arrange ments:—-Rotary Clubs, Women’s Institutes, Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, Brass Bands and Returned Soldiers’ Associations. The objects of the tour, apart from dispensing enjoyable entertainment, are to denionstrnfe the institute’s work and to raise funds for its further carrying on.