BAND SUNDAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 69, 23 March 1939, Page 9

BAND SUNDAY

STREET MARCH, HYMN TEST AND QUICKSTEP FOUR BANDS TO COMPETE Four brass bands will compete in the events to be decided on Band Sunday at Wanganui on Sunday nex. —Port Nicholson (Wellington), Wanganui Garrison, Queen Alexandra t Own and the Wellington West Coast; Regimental. The programme has now beendrawn up and it provides that the| competing bands will march from the i post office to Cook’s Gardens, leaving; sharp at 2.15 on Sunday afternoon. | They will be judged en route in a street march. On arrival at Cook’s Gardens the bands will draw for order of playing in a hymn competition and quickstep. After these two events have been decided all the bands will assemble and, under the baton of the adjudicator, Mr. F. Wentworth Slater, A.R.C.0., will play the hymn “Deep Harmony” and thc| march “BB and CF.” The visiting Port Nicholson Band will play several numbers during the afternoon. A small charge of sixpence is to be made and any profits will be divided equally between all the bands taking part. In the event of wet weather the hymn test will be decided in the Opera House and items will be played afterwards by all the bands. Judges for the quickstep will be drawn from the military staff in. Wanganui—Staff Sergeant-Majors D.j Harvey, F. Booth and J. Malcolm,! and Staff-Sergeant Wroth. The super-; visor at Cook’s Gardens will be Mr. S. Kendall.