ARMY BANDS
SEVEN TO BE ESTABLISHED. SUFFICIENT INSTRUMENTS ACQUIRED. (By Telegraph—Press Asociation.) WELLINGTON. This Day._ It is announced by Captain R. H. Nimmo that through the assistance of the National Patriotic Fund Board, sufficient band instruments had been acquired to supply ali the requirements of the Expeditionary Force in accordance with ihe establishment laid down. As the result of conferences with Ma-jor-General Freybcrg. the establishment of seven bands had been decided on. Three will remain permanently in camp in New Zealand and four would proceed overseas, being one for each brigade and one for divisional troops, such as artillery, the machine-gun 1 corps and all other units of a division. Generally speaking, the instruments have been purchased somewhere in the vicinity of <l5 per cent less than ihe original cost price. Captain Nimmo expressed thanks to all who made instruments available for pm-chnsc.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1940, Page 6
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