LADY “KILTIES"

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9981, 11 July 1925, Page 5

LADY “KILTIES"

VISIT TO PAHIATUA. Somehow or other, whether one is a Scotchman or not, the sight ancK sound of a kilties’ band stirs the martial blood within one, and sets the feet moving. This state of affairs is the more accentuated when, the “Kilties” happen to> be ladies, as is the case with the Australian Scottish Pipe Band at present on tour of the world. One might quote from the Australian papers of the success that has attended the visit of the band to the principal towns of the various States, but we can come nearer home and give an extract from the New Zealand Hei akl, Auckland. That morning daily’s critic said: “Many of the performers are but young girls, yet they play their parts with the ease which comes of a sound knowledge of technique. The piping was in every case greatly appreciated, while the dancing and singing left little to be desired.”

After the completion, of the New Zealand tour it is the intention of the band to visit Suva, Honolulu, Canada. United States of America, Great Britain, and France, returning home to Australia via South Africa. Their visit to Pahiatua on Tuesday is being looked ibrward to with a great deal of expectancy, while the band’s fellow countrymen are making every effort to make the visit of ’the lassies a memorable one.