Dunedin Bond En Route To Australia
AUCKLAND, Fri., (P.A.).— New champion band, St Kllda, from Dunedin, left Auckland by air this morning to compete in an Australian contest at Ballarat.
Thirty-seven playing members and five supporters went from the railway station to Whenuapai airport and breakfasted there before boarding a chartered Skymastdr for Sydney. On the train journey to Auckland, at nearly every stop, parties of local bandsmen turned out to wish St Kilda good luck.
The veteran of the parly, 86-year-old. Mr J. J. Marlow, OBE, the band’s president, said before leaving, that the band had never been in better form.
All bandsmen this morning were in excellent spirits, despite the strain of the past few days.
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Northern Advocate, 21 October 1949, Page 5
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