Band Vies With Band In Whangarei Concerto
Whangarei’s municipality of bands continues to be a source of embarrassment to those taking part. Last night it was the Salvation Army Band and the Whangarei County Pipe Band which provided the discords when they clashed in Cameron Street. The Salvation Army corps, which occupied its usual bivouac by the x’ear entrance of the Post Office, was presenting its programme of sacred music when the pipe band, supported by a strong contingent of Mounted Rifles from Kensington Park camp swung into action from Bank Street.
The Salvation Army players completed the verse of a hymn and ceased are, but the pipers, in all the glory of kilt and sporran, skirled their way past towards Lower Cameron Street.
Five minutes later they returned to the attack, and the Army players closed down with a couple of chains to spare. At this the ‘Highland conscience awoke and the pipers also desisted, to march past their rival bandsmen in dead silence.
If the Municipal Band and the Band of the Auckland-East Coast Mounted Rifles from the military camp also had been on parade last night there would probably have been more serious complications.
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Northern Advocate, 13 May 1939, Page 6
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