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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 92, 13 December 1912, Page 8

TO BANDSMEN, The championship and also the Challenge Shield at the Palmerston North Band Contest of 1911 were won by the Wellington Garrison Band. They used Hawke’s Excelsior Sonorous Band Instruments —a complete set. In the first test piece the maximum number of points was allotted, the judge declaring that lie had never heard neUt.: playing. Ho commended in eulogistic terms the tone and blend. The Wellvugton Tramway Band, also using a complete set of Hawke’s Excelsior Instruments, wor the B Grade. These two successes on such a great occasion, are worthy wins for Hawse ?, whose instruments are pre-eminent all ovt the world. Bandsmen, buy a set of Hawke’s—there are honours and valuable prizes to he won with them! Write for catalogues. Sole agents— The Dresden Piano Company ; Wellington. Local representative—G. W. MILLS, Stationer, Broadway (late

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