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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17863, 3 June 1926, Page 11

More than thirty million eggs reached England from South Africa during the last quarter of 1925. The claim of the band of the Coldstream Guards to be the oldest in the Army is challenged bj r a London correspondent, who says that the band of the Royal Artillery was formed in 1762, twenty-three years before the Duke of York imported German musicians as a nucleus of the Coldstream Guards band, and it was the first band to be officially recognised by a provision in the Army Estimates. The formation of the Coldstream Guards’ band was. by the way, due to an army strike. The civilian musicians who had previously provided music for the regiment put in a demand for higher pay, which was refused, whereupon they “downed instruments” and went on strike, a strike which failed owing to the strike-breakers engaged by the Duke of York, at that time Com-mander-in-Chief.