Black Watch Band To Visit Dominion
NZPA—Copyright Rec. 0.30 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 17. J. C. Williamson Theatres announced today that Britain’s famous Black Watch Band will tour New Zealand and Australia early in 1951 on the invitation of the New Zealand and Australian Prime Ministers, Mr Holland and Mr Menzies. The band will spend six weeks in New Zealand. The Black Watch, formed in 1739, is the oldest Royal Highland Regiment. At present the band consists of 42 instrumentalists and four pipers, and is now serving with the British Army of Occupation on the Rhine. The War Office has granted it leave from Germany.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27523, 18 October 1950, Page 6
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