BAND’S MISFORTUNE.
LOSS BY FIRE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Fob. 20. A fire gutted the Derry’s Military Band room in Armagh Street curly this morning, destroying about £BOO worth of instruments and equipment. The band will loso heavily, us the insurance on tho equipment was only £370. The total cost of the damage done by tho fire will probably be over £2OOO. Music which was worth at least £IOOO, although smoked, can still he Bread. “Major Miller, of the Grenadier Guards’ Band, was positive that there was not a band south of the Line with such a library,” said the conductor (Captain W. S. King). “It is a magnificent collection.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 22 February 1937, Page 9
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110BAND’S MISFORTUNE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 22 February 1937, Page 9
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