PIPE BANDS’ FETE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 6

PIPE BANDS’ FETE

HUNDREDS ON PARADE TARTANS OF MANY CLANS. FIRST BANDS ARRIVE TO-DAY. ”We’rc a hundred pipers an’ a’ and An’ vxc’li up an’ gi ’e them a blaw, a bl aw. \Vi ’ a liunGrcd pipers an’ a’, an i a ' , rich ;n its Scottish p.nces-1 ] try, A\il: respond right royally to the! (pipes of the twenty bands which will |be here lu compete in the New Zea- | land championship pipe band contest, I which opens 0:1 Cook’s Gardens or. Sat•day. Tunes dear to the heads of I British people- will be played as only ipipers can plax them, and to this race lot’ New Z.’alaiaiers. who learned mucii during the war of true marching rhythm, will return the conviction that no music in the world can equal t*ie pipes when i; (.ones to marening. And \<ha! ar. array of tartans —tar tun; red, and tartans green, tartans blue aud ti.riaas '.‘heck—all the clans of the grea; Scottish past will come swinging down the Avenue on Saturday atlerncou io the. skirl of pipes equal to the stirring music which gathered the to r: «;■ the banner of Wallace. But piping Las an appeal not only to Sccicii people. Its appeal goes far beiyor..;. . - when it rememi bored how we'l the regiments of an ~t slop to the Jilting iuiH - whi-'.i ti=c pipes arc capable of be!!".: made to produce. A: 1.45 p.m. on Saturday, over 3'JO pipers. :n bands, will start off in procession from tiie Town Bridge and will :» arch cn ihe Avenue. There will be the Dutic-din band in its blue and white striped tartan of the Gordons; the Citv of Ch: i- tchurcii band, with its Ogilvie tartan of purple, with white and cream stripes; the Timaru Band, in its tartan worn by the Grants, purple and black; the New Plymouth pipers in their Mc(Queen tartan, yellow check; the Rauhines, wearing the crest of the Royal Stuarts; Feilding Band, similarly clad; ihe Palmerston North Band, in the tartan of the Clan AlcKenzie; the Dannevirke Band in the colours of the Hunting Smart.*, from the first clan tartan to be woven in New Zealand, and the Wanganui Band in its tartan of the warlike Camerons. And among the bands of men there will be a band of lassies from Alotueka, clad in the tartan of'Douglas, black and white. This unit will attract particuI '.r attc-ntiun and it is due to arrive this afternoon at 4.34 p.m, together with the Bum dm and Timaru Bands, and will march up the Avenue to its hotel. The other two bands mentioned will do likewise, so it is to-day that AVanganui will begin to hear the strains of highland and lowland music, in contest arrav. I'kei'c wi'l be 300 on parade on Sat- | . ;dmarch!