AUSTRALIAN BOYS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21333, 7 November 1932, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN BOYS

PROPOSED DOMINION VISIT YOUNG BAND MEMBERS A public meeting to be addressed by Mr. E. R. Maril, deputy-director of the Young Australia League, and Mr. H. Gladstone Hill, organising director of the forthcoming New Zealand tour of the League's band and revue party, will be held in the Mayor's room at the Town Hall at 3.30 p.m. to-day. The deputymayor, Mr. A. J. Entrican, will preside. Mr. Maril will arrive by the Mariposa, which is due from Sydney this morning. By a coincidence, it is 13 years this week since Mr. Entrican presided at a similar meeting held in connection with the visit of the New South Wales State Orchestra under Mr. Henri Verbrugghen. Mr. HJll was also organiser of that tour. Hie party will leave Sydney on December 16, and will arrive at Auckland on December 20. All profits in the various towns will be devoted to charity, the visit being for educational purposes only. The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. J. A. Lyons, is sending four trees from Canberra to be planted at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin respectively, by Charlie Stanton, the eight-year-old drum-major, who is claimed to be the youngest in the world. There are 38 boys and two adults in the party. The bandmaster is Mr. B. W. Caten, professor at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney. In the party tl'iere are 20 boys under the age of 12, the remaining 18 being between 12 and 15 years of age. When the band was on its American tour, Mr. Philip John Sousa described it as the finest boys' band in the world.