DOMINION BAND CONTEST

Southland Times, Issue 23443, 25 February 1938, Page 7

DOMINION BAND CONTEST

FIRST SELECTIONS OF TESTS BLIND PLAYER’S SUCCESS » (United Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, February 24. Events were continued at the New Zealand band contest today. Following were the placings in the first selection of the A Grade test:--Port Nicholson Silver, Wanganui Garrison, Timaru Municipal, Wellington Tramways, Auckland Artillery, Palmerston North Garrison, Auckland First Battalion. The points will be declared after the second selection on Friday night. Ten B grade bands competed in the first test selection. The placings were: Institute Silver, Wellington, Dannevirke Municipal, Christchurch Municipal, Ashburton!Silver, Wellington Artillery, Hawera \ Municipal, Feilding Municipal, Te Awamutu Municipal, Palmerston North City Silver, Hastings Citizens. After the second test Ashburton was first, Institute Silver Wellington second, and Dannevirke third. (Hie winner of the B flat comet championship, A. Morton, who is 18 years of age, is blind and has never seen a printed note of music in his life, everything having to be transcribed to Braille for him. He won the New Zealand championship two years ago in his first competitive effort. After the test reference was made to the death of Mr T. Lindsay Buick, vice-president of the New Zealand Bands Association, Mr P. C. Vinnell, Mayor of Timaru, whose son is a member of the Timaru Municipal Band, and Mrs Francis, wife of a member of the Wanganui Garrison Band and mother of the conductor and another member of the same band. Results: —

The judge (Mr E. P. Kerry) said he had heard some very good B _ grade playing and also some poor playing. TROMBONE TRIO Tune “Lady of Beauty” Timaru Municipal (78pts) 1 Dannevirke Municipal (76pts) 2 Port Nicholson (71pts) 3 Also competed: Feilding Municipal (62pts), Auckland Artillery (68pts), Christchurch Municipal (67pts). B FLAT OR DOUBLE B FLAT BASS SOLO « “When Love is Kind” H. C. Unwin (Wanganui Garrison) 81pts 1 E. D. Withell (Ashburton Silver) 80pts 2 W. Wilkinson (Feilding Municipal) 79pts 3 Also competed: R. Shackleton (Palmerston Garrison) 78pts, L. Jacobs (Wellington Institute) 73pts, S. Bennett (Wellington Institute) retired, H. Kendrew (Christchurch Municipal) 75pts, H. Booker (Palmerston City) 75pts, T. Murphy (Timaru Municipal) 74pts, E. Blomfield (Ashburton Silver) 77pts, R. Scott (Waipukurau) 76pts. E FLAT TENOR HORN R. Francis (St. Kilda) 80pts 1 F. Ormond (Port Nicholson) 79pts 2 H. Parsonage (Port Nicholson) 78pts . 3 B FLAT CORNET CHAMPIONSHIP A, Morton (Blind Institute, Auckland) 92pts 1 C. Gardner (Auckland Regimental) 84pts 2 H. F. Vincent (Port Nicholson) 78pts 3 B FLAT CORNET, AMATEUR “Sans gouci” D. Christensen (St. Kilda Municipal) 79 points 1 R. Milligan (Timaru Municipal), 78 points 2 J. Storrie (Invercargill Citizens), 77 points t Lloyd Lee (Timaru Municipal), 77 points $ Also competed: I. King (Wellington

Institute) 76 points, B. Register (Palmerston Garrison) 75 points, R. Cumming (Timaru) 74 points, V. Aldridge (Woolston) 73 points, H. Clarke (Wellington Tramways) 72 points, A. G. Taylor (Hawke’s Bay Regiment) 71 points, W. McPherson (Hastings Citizens) 70 points. Badccck (Hawera Municipal), L. A. Boyer (Invercargill), and N. Hewitt, A. Leiz and W. Holmes, all of Wellington Tramways, retired. EUPHONIUM SOLO “Mermaid’s Song” G. Clayton (Onehunga Citizens), 87 points 1 H. Wephoff (Timaru), 85 points 2 H. Guthrie (Palmerston Garrison) 82 points 3 Also competed: J. Smith (Port Nicholson) 72 points, L. Clayton (Wellington Tramways) 71 points, T. Fleetwood (Wellington Tramways) 70 points, T. A. Miller (Ashburton Silver) 78 points, R. Lee (Te Awamutu Municipal) 64 points, L. J. Hickman (Fielding Municipal) 62 points, A. Dix (Wellington Institute) 60 points, H. L. Abrahams (Nelson Garrison), McKechnie (Auckland Artillery) and W. Gibb (Kaikorai) retired. TENOR TROMBONE H. Croucher (Hawera) 92pts 1 J. Glennie (Institute Silver, ' Wellington) 84pts 2 G. Langridge (Timaru) 81pts 3

B GRADE CHAMPIONSHIP First Second n Ashburton 117 122 239 Institute Silver • (Wellington) . 120 118 238 Dannevirke 119 116 235 Christchurch Municipal 118 107 225 Hawera 94 130 224 Te Awamutu 88 114 202 Wellington Artillery 100 89 189 Hastings 85 94 179 Feilding 89 84 173 Palmerston North City Silver 86 83 • 169