WELLINGTON BANDS
Amalgamation Proposal Made. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 20. Mr H. D. Bennett, president of the New Zealand Bands Association, has launched important and novel proposals involving the amalgamation in one organisation of all bands in Wellington City. For some time past Mr Bennett has been convinced that brass band talent here has been dissipated by the existence of so many units each seeking to secure the best players and c.o preventing the possibility of the formation of one really first-class brass band. His 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 that if this could be brought about it
would make possible the engagement of a first-class conductor from oveiseas who would not only conduct the civic band but also train the graded bands and be responsible for an annual classification. He also proposes that the senior or civic band should not be eligible for contests.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 642, 21 December 1932, Page 7
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168WELLINGTON BANDS Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 642, 21 December 1932, Page 7
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