THEY LIKED DUNEDIN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18888, 31 December 1926, Page 14

THEY LIKED DUNEDIN.

ARGYLE AND SUTHERLAND BANDSMEN COME BACK: (press assocutioh telegram.) AUCKLAND, December SO. Just a year ago the Band of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders was the talk of most holidaymakers, and was proving perhaps the greatest attraction of the Dunedin Exhibition. The kilted players themselves were favourites in the city whose guests they were for over six months, and it was to be expected that there would be' invitations to "come back and be one of us." . That .bo many would accept is a development that might mildly surprise even the bandsmen's friends in hospitable Dunedin, but Which is rather eloquently shown in passenger lists of immigrant ships that have recently arrived in Auckland. Already there are five or more of the bandsmen back in New Zealand and others are on their second voyage to the Edinburgh of the South. Most of those who have returned are of the band's piping division, and peculiar packages that were carried on the vessels as personal luggage suggest that future Caledonian gatherings in the south will not lack the charms of incidental music.

The spare time of the new arrivals will be occupied iu pursuit of such varied callings as baking, carpenteriug, farming, photography, and tailoring.