CAPTAIN BUCKLEY’S SUCCESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 288, 6 December 1933, Page 6

CAPTAIN BUCKLEY’S SUCCESS

-pHE appointment of Captain Buckley, of the Auckland Artillery Band, to be the adjudicator at the forthcoming band contest to be held at Wellington, will give a great deal of pleasure to the bandsmen and the public of Wanganui. Captain Buckley has come to an outstanding position in the world of bands and bandsmen in New Zealand, and his sense of fairness and general outlook, together with his high appreciation of the merits and demands of band music, fit him well to discharge the onerous duties of contest adjudicator. Although Captain Buckley is now resident in Auckland, and (he northern city will doubtless claim him for her own, Wanganui still cherishes the fact that it was in this city that Captain Buckley won his most-valued laurels and carried on the tradition set so high by Mr. James Crichton, that only first-class band work was good enough for Wanganui. It was as a cornet soloist, that Captain Buckley won renown throughout Australia and New Zealand. Tn awarding the “possible” to Mr. Buckley on one occasion, the late Ord Hume, of England, said: “1 have had the honour of ad judicating England’s best soloists during recent years, but this is the first occasion on which I have awarded the maximum points possible to a cornel, .soloist.”