FURTHER HONOURS SOUGHT
AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION After its success at the Dominion championship, the St. Kilda Band has decided to seek further honours, and will compete in the Grand National Eisteddfod of Australia, which will be held from October 24 to 29 at Ballarat. Victoria. . The festival is conducted by the South Street Society of Victoria, and the band contest programme is a very full one. The first three days are devoted to the solo, duet, and quartet items, and all the full band competitions are held in the last three days. If the St. Kilda Band enters for all the competitions it is eligible to compete in, it will have to prepare a test piece, an own selection piece, a quickstep, and a hymn. It may also take part in a street march, for which a trophy is presented. In all, £1350 will be distributed to the competing bands. Only £4OO of this is prize money, however, the remaining £950 being “appearance money. Of this one-third is divided equally among all the bands competing in the four grades in which competitions are held. Another third is divided according to the number of players competing in each band, and the final third according to the mileage travelled by competing bands.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27044, 31 March 1949, Page 6
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