AN ANTHEM TO ORDER.
It is a fact not generally known that Lord -Kitchener on one occasion invented a national anthem. It was Upon the occasion of a visit to India of the Ameer of Afghanistan, arid the order went round that all military bands were to greet him with the national anthem of Afghanistan. But no one knew what it was, and Lord Kitchener was appealed to.
"What does it matter two straws, he said. "Play a bar or two of something slow and. pompous and let it go at that."
So the first band that greeted the Ameer played a march from one of the German operas very slowly, and solemnly, and this was generally taken up by the whote of the bands in InoTa!
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 28 August 1912, Page 7
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127AN ANTHEM TO ORDER. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 28 August 1912, Page 7
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