THE BAND CONTEST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20965, 3 March 1930, Page 6

THE BAND CONTEST.

The success of the New Zealand Band Contest wbieli was brought to a conclusion on Saturday will be a matter of deep satisfaction to the Dunedin public. It must always be with a good deal of trepidation that an organisation of citizens undertakes the responsibility of financing an undertaking of the kind. Liberal support from the community is, of course, essential if the organisation. is to be freed from anxiety, and the measure of the support of the masses of the people depends more or less on the weather that prevails during the week of the contest. The residents of Dunedin will hardly need to be reminded that the out-of-doors events of the’ contest during the currency of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition were practically ruined by unfavourable weather. There was no such unfortunate experience on this occasion. The brilliant spectacle that was' presented on the Carisbrook Ground on Saturday afternoon, when the quickstep competitions were held, was one that has not been surpassed, and has probably not been paralleled, in the history of band contests in the Dominion. And for the competitions that were held under cover the Town Hall has, by common consent, been admirably suited. Already even those ratepayers who were opposed to the erection of it must realise that the Town Hall is a civic acquisition of very great value. It should be added that the public has highly appreciated the visit to Dunedin of the bandsmen from so many other centres in. the Dominion, and the memories of the contest of 1930 will be so fragrant that it will look forward to the presence of the bands in this city at the next contest that Vili be held here —at, it is to be hoped, a date not too far distant.