PIPE BAND CONTEST
TIMARU BAND TO ENTER. N.Z.’s CHAMPION MARCHERS. Advice has been received in ganui that the Timaru Pipe Band, the New Zealand champion marching band, is making a determined effort to defend its title at the pipe band contest to be staged at Wanganui at Faster. The 'l’imaru Pipe Band holds the Sir Harry Lauder Shield and the Hunter Drill Shield and won the spectacular druni-major’s display. The band will arrive in Wanganui on April 9 and, with a complement of 35 members, will march from the railway station. The band is dressed in kilts of the Grand Tartan mainly through the generosity of its patron, Air. IDonald Grant. It is expected that over 26 bands, including a women’s band, will he competing at the contest. Already 15 bands have expressed their intention of competing and the contest should be n memorable event in the history nf Scottish national music in New Zealand.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 6
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155PIPE BAND CONTEST Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 6
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