HIGHLAND DISPLAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 4

HIGHLAND DISPLAY

Five Bands Taking Part A spectacular pipe bands display will be held at the Oamaru Show Grounds tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. when five Highland bands, together with Highland dancers, will combine to give a display of a kind rarely seen in the district. Three of the leading A Grade bands in the Dominion will take part. The programme, which is to be presented bv the Burns, Dunedin, Timaru, Waimate and North Otago Bands, includes drill displays, selections, staff swinging and a massed bands' movement which has been arranged by Drill Instructor G. A. Doran. The Waimate Highland Pipe Band enjoys much popularity in its district and a large number of residents intend making the trip to Oamaru with the band. This band is also one of the better class B Grade bands in the Dominion. The Timaru Highland Pipe Band is one of the finest A Grade bands in the Dominion and last Saturday at New Plymouth it won the New Zealand Drum Majors’ Display. The band’s drum major, K. Manning, won the New Zealand Staff Swinging Championship in 1948 and was second in this event this year. The Dunedin Highland Pipe Band has appeared in Oamaru previously in support of appeals by the local band. This band did not take part in the contest at New Plymouth this year, but since its inception in 1897 has won many contest honours. . . ~ The Burns Pipe Band was originally formed as a unit of the Dunedin Home Guard and at the demobilisation of the service continued as a civilian band. In the first contest in which it entered it won the B Grade Championship. .After graduating to A Grade the band continued to meet with success, but did not take part in the contest this year because of ; desire to pay for uniforms recently obtained. The local band has spent many hours practising for the display and has entered for the contest at Timaru on April 2 A collection will be taken at the gates, and the profits will go towards the local band’s uniform fund.