WELSH GUARDS BAND
VISIT TO DOMINION
(TENTENNIAII EX 111 IUTION
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
The Welsh Guards Band has been engaged at a cost of many thousands of pounds to play at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1989-40. Negotiations to obtain the services of this famous hand were first opened some months ago when the High Commissioner in London, Mr. W. •). Jordan, was asked to investigate the possibilities of' persuading the band of one of the best English regiments to visit New Zealand for the centennial.
Mr. Jordan put forward the name of the Welsh Guards, whose terms have been accepted by the exhibition directors.
The precise cost of obtaining the band and bringing ii to New Zealand has not been made public, but it is understood that it runs into many thousands of pounds. The band will play in Wellington for the duration of the exhibition and will probably tour New Zealand afterward before returning to England.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 25 June 1938, Page 9
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