AMALGAMATIOR OF BANDS

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1932, Page 9

AMALGAMATIOR OF BANDS

SUGGESTION AT WELLINGTON ONE FIRST-CLASS COMBINATION. “TAT .ENT IN CITY DISSIPATED.” OVERSEAS CONDUCTOR POSSIBLE. By Telegraph.—Preka Association. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. H. D. Bennett, president of the New Zealand Bands Association, has launched novel proposals involving the amalgamation in one organisation of all the bands in Wellington city. For some time Mr. Bennett has been convinced that brass band talent at Wellington had been dissipated in the existence of so many units, each seeking to secure the best players and so preventing the possibility of the formation of one really first-class brass band. Mr. Bennett’s scheme for Wellington proposes the assembling of all band talent under one organisation, forming a first-class civic band and a number of graded bands. Mr. Bennett believes if this could be brought about it would make possible the engagement of a firstclass conductor from overseas, who would not only conduct the civic band but would' also train the grade bands and would be responsible for their annual classification. He also proposes the senior or civic band should not be eligible for contests.