COMBINED BANDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 296, 12 November 1934, Page 10

COMBINED BANDS.

PARADE THROUGH SQUARE. QUEEN CARNIVAL PROCESSION. Streets in the business area of Palmerston North on Saturday afternoon were thronged with spectators for the procession through the Square of the queen carnival candidates. The weather was brilliantly fine and warm, and the parade made an animated spectacle. The queen candidates were escorted by the chairmen of the respective committees, and by their followers.

Starting from the Opera House, about 3 p.m., the procession was led by the Wanganui Pipe Band, under Pipe-Major It. Thompson and DrumMajor J. Buckley. Combining with the Manawatu Scottish Society’s Pipe Band under Pipe-Major V. J. Nicholson and Drum-Major J. Peterana, they moved off playing the march of “A Hundred Pipers.” Tho Pipe Band Queen, Miss June Scott, who was charmingly attired in the Stewart tartan with Balmoral cap, sat on the topmost step of a column in a float decorated with the band’s colours, and symbolising the flight of Squadron-Leader McGregor and Air H. C. Walker from England to Melbourne. It bore the slogan “The Macs are Always There.” Miss Scott was surrounded by a retinue of small attendants in Highland dress.

Next in order came the Garrison Band in their smart black uniform with white facings, with Mr C. Pike as conductor and Air S. _ Wilson as drum-major. The Garrison Band Queen, Aliss Beryl Oakley, wearing a pretty summer frock and hat, rode in a smart car bearing the hand’s badge executed boldly 011 a shield of blue and gold. Tlio City Silver Band, in black uniform, with red facings, followed, under Air W- O’Hara as conductor, with Air W. Adams as drum-major. Their queen candidate, Aliss Pearl AViniata, was becomingly dressed in Alaori costume, with her attendants, and sat amid a bowery of fern and flowers with which the float had been decorated.

During the day the Pipe Band conducted a mock court and were very diligent in their search for “offenders.” Penalties were exacted by a stern judge for the most minor and trivial transgressions alleged. Such was the accuracy of tho testimony and the weight of the evidence adduced that none of those who appeared before the Bench were released without being fined as a gesture of disapproval —or approval.