LOSS TO BANDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 75, 25 February 1938, Page 8

LOSS TO BANDS.

RECENT BEREAVEMENT. ASSOCIATION’S SYMPATHY. Prior to the commencement of business at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Brass Bands’ Association, held in Palmerston North to-day, the president (Mr E. Palliser) referred to the losses sustained by the association during the year. The band movement in general and the Auckland Artillery Band in particular, he said, had felt very keenly the death of Mr Iv. Dunne (conductor of the Artillery Band), while more recently only this week—there had passed away the association’s esteemed vice-president, Mr T. Lindsay Buick, while the bereavement suffered by Bandsman W. Vinnell in the sudden death of his father (Mayor of Timaru), had been matters of genuine regret. “Then on top of it ally’ added Mr Palliser, “came the tragic passing of Mrs vV... Francis, wife of a Wanganui veteran bandsman and mother of the Wanganui Garrison Band’s conductor (Mr Reaney Francis), the St. Hilda Band’s conductor (Mr Leslie Francis), and of Mr Roy Francis a third rnmeber of the family in the Wanganui Band. It was a shock to all of us, and it makes us proud to feel that we are Britishers when we realise the fortitude shown by the family when they took the platform on Wednesday evening under the stress of bereavement.” A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the persons mentioned was carried in silence.