NEXT BAND CONTEST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 84, 29 May 1911, Page 5

NEXT BAND CONTEST.

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A deputation representing the South Island Hands Association waited on the flavor relative to the band contest to be "held in this city in November next, and asked for the Mayor's sympathetic interest in the contest, and also asked if lie would use Ids influence to enlist the sympathy of the members of the City Council to ensure the success of the fixture. The contest would last about a week. The deputation wished the Mayor and City Council to interest themselves in the matter, and call a meeting of the public, at which a contest committee would be appointed. Tha Mayor expressed his own personal sympathy with the proposal, and promised to bring the matter before the Council at its meeting on Monday evening, lie believed that the Council would give the project its cordial support, and would endorse the suggestion that an invitation be extended to the association to hold its contest in Christchurch.