THE CHAMPION BAND.
CRITICISM IN WANGANUI. (Fbou Our Own Correspondent.) WANGANUI, March 11. At a complimentary social tendered last night to the Wanganui Garrison and the Queen Alexandra’s Own bands, which won the first two tests and own choice respectively at the Exhibition contest at Dunedin, and the Wanganui Pipe Band which gained third in the marching and tests, Mr J. Gray contended that the marching test and the own selection should not be included in the championship test. Under present conditions a band could be 50-50 light through nnd yet win the championship. It was an absurdity, and as he was now on the executive he intended to fight this matter with a view to on alteration. The musical people of New Zealand, all the same, ecognised that the Garrison Band was the champion band of New Zealand, having now won two test selections. The mayor presented a baton to each of the conductors, from the mayor, citizens and supporters in Wanganui in commemoration of their victories. The mayor said that the batons would be a record of the very great honour the bandsmen had done the city, and he hoped their successes would be the forerunner of many more wins.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3757, 16 March 1926, Page 73
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202THE CHAMPION BAND. Otago Witness, Issue 3757, 16 March 1926, Page 73
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