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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 15 May 1934, Page 13

“It is not generally recognised what it costs to form and maintain a band,” said Mr J. Noble, president of the Christchurch Bands’ Association, at a meeting held to make arrangements for a street collection in aid of the city bands. “At the outset there is from £7OO to £BOO for instruments and about £2OO for uniforms. This equipment does not last either. Some of the instru--1 meats used in some of 'the bands should have been thrown away long ago.” Speaking on the same subject, -Mr C. S. Thomas, president, of .the Canterbury Caledonian Society, said that pipe bands were even more expensive. Uniforms cost about £4OO to £SOO and instruments were also costly. Running expon'sos were exceedingly heavy.

Inches only separated a party of ££ members of tho Post and Telegraph staff at Napier from a serious accident on the Napier-Taupe road on Sunday. Having been engaged in a Rugby football match at Waikari, they were returning to Napier on a motor lorry when, in the vicinitv of Tangoio, a largo sheep truck was seen to be approaching from tin opposite direction. The first, lorry pulled well over to the left, but the other vehicle apparently failed to follow suit, with tho result that the sheep truck grazed tho tray of the lorry and carried away a ladder which was fastened there, smashing it to matchwood. At the same time, a" passenger on the lorry was struck heavily on the shoulder, his overcoat being badly torn, but fortunately he was not injured. The occupants of the lorry received a severe shaking.