BAND CONTEST.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11498, 3 February 1903, Page 5

BAND CONTEST.

(FBSSB ASSOCUTION TKLCORUI.} iLAOTERTON, FdMrouT 2Tha sixtth oniioei contest under the auspices of the North lal*od Bnn Band- ikssociation opened in il*stertoa to-d^ , . Altlwugli eeveral bande wlio -were expected lmre found then>seiv«e unable te enter for t)ie piece* tba ooptest wQI at£U be a. noo«d as fww tSia Dtunfcer of comptitiitoni goes. Fifteen bands wi£ compete, ■ssiMi is two more than tbe prwioue In addition leveral other bands, nob strongly irepretented enough to «nter for tlw test pieces, will hays individual memberc taking part in tbe golos. Fine weather k tbe one thing vctu&otL to make the contest an unqualified success from every standpoint. Unfortunately the- elements I»ve so far anything but propitious, tbougli at present there »re signs of much needed improvement. - ; The carnival oommenoed with the BiMat Baritone Solos. Th«* <wete fourteen Entries, but fix scratched, namely, C. A. Zin- i ckgraf (Newtown), W. Mcßobie (Southland Battalion), H. G. Hutchewn (Woo>--1 ston), J. F. .Flint (Norih-Easi. Valley), P. Addes (Petonc), and S. Swift (WeetiKM-t). P. Dixon (Wellington OamsanJ, A. Martin (Wanganui Garrison), B. FJatt (TAnmaki Garrison), J. J. Cosgrove (Mastertbn Mttiricipal), h. Urwin (Ha.wer* Borough), and J. Dodg (Kaikorai) executed the test aok> "Une Perfe de L'Ocwui," a fantasia by Theodore Hooh, in* owing to the competing bends being un*b!e to arrive in time, it wae decided not to give a decision, but to bold the event open so as to allow the ecCoists of those Mods to compote. The Euphonium Soio contest wts also begun, but owingto the fact that all the com-