PIPE BAND CONTEST

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 195, 19 July 1939, Page 6

PIPE BAND CONTEST

PROGRAMME ARRANGED. At a meeting of the Dominion Pipe Hand contest committee the programme for the contest in January was arranged. The following events were decided on:—Drum-majors’ display: A grade, CIA £5. £'3; B grade, £l2 10s, £5, £2 10s. Quickstep:" A grade. £50,.£20. £lO. £5; n grade. £3O. £ls. £B, £5. Test selection: A grade, £-10, £2O, £lO. £5; B grade. £3O. £ls. £lO. £5. Aggregate: A grade, £10; B grade, £5. Drum-majors’ stave flourishing contest: £3. £1 10s. Street march:

£,>. £2 10s (both grades) Special prizes will ho allotted • : i o , v _\ .trade: Championship Cnal go Shield for the highest aggregate points for selection and music and the total military points, Harry Lauder Shield, tor lug '®\ a r grebate points for music and dull challenge cup, lor bigest points for music in the sellxtio , df’.M shield, for highest points m the quickstep and selection; challenge cup, for most points for dross nDthe inspection of hands m the quickstep; I imam Highland Pipe Band Challenge Cup, for highest points in drum-majois display ; George Lanchlan Memorial Cup. i for' highest points for music in q'Y™' step. B grade: Timaru Challenge Cup,

for highest aggregate points in tc-t selection and quickstep music, and total highest military. points; Lmpiie Challgnge Cun, for highest po.nts ... dim -majors’ display; Munawatu Scotti.slV Society’s Challenge .Sl.iekl, for highest points m test selection, Al.isdair Macdonald Challenge Cup, hi.diest points m quickstep. Gold medals are to be given to the drum-majors of hands gaming mo>t .o'uts in drum-major’s display, and nr drill in the quickstep: gold medals tor p ,"-majors of bands gaining most Lints in music m the quickstep and in the test selection; gold medal lor the best bass drummer in the- selection (A oi B grade): medals to the champion j band.