CADET BUGLE BAND

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14844, 9 December 1913, Page 10

CADET BUGLE BAND

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE FRBSS."

Sir,—l attended the military display last Tuesday' and Wednesday nights, with the idea of hearing the Bugle Band, but was disappointed. I have been watching the band on all big parades, and would have given a donation towards same if asked for it. I was speaking to a member one day, and he said he thought they were going to the Auckland Tournament, but he had now banished all hopes of doing so, as he had not heard whether they had been entered or not, and I think it a mean triick on the part of the Defence Department for not sending the boys after promising them to go.—Yours, etc., DISAPPOINTED. [Captain Finnis, officer in charge of No. 9 Area Group, told a reporter yesterday that, so far as he was aware, no promisee had ever been made to the Cadet Bugle Band that they should go to the Auckland Military Tournament. It should be stated, he said, that there were no competitions for bugle bands at the tournament, although there was a competition for individual buglers. Captain Finnis mentioned that his predecessor in office, Captain Kelsall, might have told the boys that if their instruments arrived from England in time there was a possibility of the Bugle Band going to Auckland. As it was, the.instru--tnents had not yet arrived, and until they d ; d so, and the boys learned to play them, there would be no bugle band turned out. Captain Finnis added that had the band been properly equipped ho would have made an effort to send all the members up to the Tournament as individual competitors.—Ed. "The Press."]