BANDS DISQUALIFIED
SEQUEL TO CONTESTS
OUTSIDE PLAYERS USED
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Last Saturday the Wellington Artillery Band secured tlie highest number of points at tho Masterton band contest. and in the evening its conductor. . Captain T. Herd, was duly presented with the shield. However, it .is now announced that the Wellington Artillery and Wellington Royal Naval Reserve Bands are automatically disqualified through utilising the services of players not regularly attached to these bands. | Mr. .F. O. Osborne, secretary of the New Zealand Brass Bands’ Association, stated that although the shield had been handed over to Captain Herd, a meeting, of the New Zealand Association to be held next week would discuss the matter. He anticipated that Captain Herd would be asked to hand back the shield. ( The only two "clean” bands in tho contest, Masterton and Carterton Municipal, wme third, equal, with fib | points. All four Wellington bands were supplemented with outside players, pi several eases from. A grade bauds.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 5
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