FAMOUS BAND
TOUR OF DOMINIONS FAREWELL LUNCHEON LONDON, Sept. 1. Mr Nevin Tait gave a farewell luncheon at tho Savoy Hotel yesterday to .Major George Miller, who is to take the 'Grenadier Guards* band to Australia ■ and New Zealand by the .Otranto, which leaves to-day. Other guests at the luncheon emphasised that the band was the finest combination of military music in the world. Mr Tait said lie expected that the .performers of the band would ecli'pse that of the Besses o’ the Barn band, which filled the Dunedin Botanical .Gardens with 20,000 people. The Agent-General for Western Australia. Sir Hal Coldbatch, said such visits were likely to do more to promote Imperial sentiments than Premiers’ Conferences, Statutes of Westminster and Ottawa agreements. The High Commission for New Zealand, Sir James Parr, recalled the band’s recent triumphs in Paris, and .predicted that Now Zealand’s welcome would eclipse the French reception. All those.present signed a replica of the Grenadier Guards’ drum. Major Miller expressed anticipation of a 'delightful tour, which, he said, ho hoped would cultivate Imperial amity.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18504, 17 September 1934, Page 7
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