BLIND INSTITUTE BAND
ENJOYABLE CONCERT GIVEN COMING TOUR OF DOMINION Prior to commencing a tour of 37 centres of the Dominion next month, the band and concert party of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind presented an enjoyable concert last evening before an audience which filled the hall at tho institute. In addition tor concerted numbers there were pianoforte solos and duets, cornet solos and duets, recitation, part songs and community singing, xylophone and euphonium solos, and an example of Braille reading.
The party, comprising 21 members of the institute, will set out early next month on a tour chiefly of the South Island. They will bo accompanied bv Sir Clutlia Mackenzie, director of tho institute, and will be under the bandmaster, Lieutenant G. W. Bowes. The tour will open with a concert at Taihape on October 4 and will last for seven weeks.
In organising tho tour the band ia receiving the assistance of such bodies as borough councils, Commercial Travellers' Associations, Rotary Clubs, Women's Institutes, the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union, and tho Returned Soldiers' Association. They will take charge of local arrangements in tho various centres to be visited
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22225, 27 September 1935, Page 14
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