OAMARU GARRISON BAND
MONTHLY MEETING Mr A. Nuttall was in the chair at the monthly meeting of the Oamaru Garrison Band on Thursday night. The Nortli Oamaru Carnival Committee, the Oamaru Boating Club, and the Oamaru National Party wrote expressing appreciation ot the band’s services at their respective functions, and Mr R. J- Estall thanked the band for its message of congratulation on the occasion of his golden jubilee as a member of the Woolston Brass Band. The resignation of Bandsman T. Ottley was accepted with regret. The secretary, Mr W. R. F. Naylor, reported that the committee had decided to procure manuscript copies of the march " Oamaruvian," composed by Mr J. H. May, an ex-member of the Oamaru Garrison Band. The band’s Christmas activities had again met with gratifying appreciation, though the area covered was less than usual. Mr Nuttall informed members that arrangements were being made for a concert to be given in the Opera House on March 21, the proceeds of which would be devoted to forwarding a consignment of parcels of food to a band in Coventry, the city which Oamaru had adopted in the "Aid to Britain ” campaign.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26672, 19 January 1948, Page 3
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