BAND CARNIVAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21951, 7 November 1934, Page 14

BAND CARNIVAL

CONTESTS IN AUCKLAND THREE-DAY PROGRAMME The first carnival organised by the recently-formed Auckland Provincial Brass Bands' Association will commence to-morrow evening and will be continued on Saturday and Sunday. Solo events, divided into a class for adults and one for juveniles, will be held to-morrow evening in Scots Hall. It is expected that there will be about 40 or 50 competitors, some of them coming from distant parts of the province. Mr. Wynne Smith, of Auckland, will be adjudicator for these events.

Further contests will be held at Carlaw Park on Saturday afternoon. Arrangements are being made for the competing bands to march in procession from Queen Street to tho park, and they will be headed by a number of bands that are not taking part in the competitions, including the Devonport United Band, the Artillery Band, the Waterside Workers' Union Silver Band, and the Aucklaud and District Highland Pipe Band. A quickstep competition will be decided at Carlaw Park during tho afternoon, and test selections will be played in tho evening. It is expected that there will bo 12 bands competing. Air. J. J. Drew, of Wellington, will judge the contests. Sacred music will be played by the bands at Carlaw Park on Sunday afternoon, and selections will bo rendered by tho massed bands as a finale.

THE DOMINION MEETING TWENTY-FOUR BANDS ENTER [by telegraph—PllKSS association] TIMARU, Tuesday Nearly 1000 bandsmen fincl officials will assemble in Timaru for the New Zealand Brass Bands' Association's annual contest, which is to be held from February IS to 23. Eleven A grade and 13 B grade bands have entered, as follows:

A Grade. —Invercargill Civic, Kaikorai, Nelson Garrison, Palmerston North Garrison, Port Nicholson, Queen Alexandra's Own, St. Kilda, Wanganui Garrison, Wellington Municipal Tramways, Woolston, Timaru, Municipal. B Grade. —Artillery Band Southern Command, Ashburton, Band of Ist Southland Regiment, Christchurch Municipal, Gore Municipal, Grevmouth Municipal, Hastings Citizens, Masterton Municipal Silver, Palmerton North City Silver, Taranaki Regimental and New Plymouth Municipal, Wellington Boys' Institute, Wellington Artillery, and Westport Municipal.