BAND CONTEST
NEW PLYMOUTH FIXTURE INFLUX OF VISITORS [BY TELECBAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NEW PLYMOUTH. Sunday There has been a largo influx of visitors to New Plymouth for the Dominion band contest, which will open to-morrow and continue until Saturday. Every hotel is fully booked and accommodation elsewhere is at a premium. Pukekura Park, with its terraced amphitheatre, will be the scene of the major events of the contest. A number of bands arrived by special train from the South to-night. Some of the entrants have withdrawn, mostly owing to financial difficulties. The following twelve bands will take part: — A Grade. —Cairns Citizens' Band (Queensland), Nelson Garrison Band, Port Nicholson Silver Band, St. Kilda Municipal Band, Wanganui Garrison Band, Tiinaru Municipal Band, Woolston Band. B Grade. —Hastings Citizens' Band. Grevmouth Municipal Band, Wellington Boys' Institute Band, Taranaki Regimental Band, Waitara Municipal Band. ' The adjudicator is Mr. A. Baile, of Sydney,"and the assistant adjudicator Mr. T. Gray, of Wellington.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22351, 24 February 1936, Page 10
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157BAND CONTEST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22351, 24 February 1936, Page 10
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