BAND CONTESTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 656, 5 November 1909, Page 8

BAND CONTESTS.

(By ..Telegraph—Press Association; . -.' ■ ■ Invercargill, jN'ovcmbcr 4. .The Invercargill Brass-Bands contest catered ~ upon i,ts.'four.tli ,day. this m'oriiing,. when tho B and 8.8 flat ■ bases and side drum competitions were decided, , The BB flat , bass produced excellent performances by the. placed men, the judge publicly shaking hands, with. J. R. Brown, invercargill Dominion (who won ' with .i)i\ per ; cent) < : Ho congratulated tho player upon lus /artistic treatment arid..&biiity to, play four-bar phrases, a most unusual thing in double bass.work. . B flat bass (two en trios).—J. C< Gallop, Wool-. ston, Chnstchurch;' 9*. 1: D.. Miller.' Bluff, 80, 2. V BB flat bass (four entries).—J. R. Brown, Dominion, Invercargill. 91. 1;- W; . Fenton, Woplston, Christciiurcn, 00, .". 'Side.drum'.(four entries).—J. A. I'etters, Port Chalmers, 80,.. 1.;. J,; Stewart, ' Garrison,' 75i ''2l . ffly vCkirresponde.nt) :, ; Wanganui; November .1.. ■ Entries for the February -band contest-clos.e on December 7, both'fbr selections and solos. BOY SCOUTS. —q ■■ '■■' p- " At the fi -tnigbtly meeting of scoutmasters, held at the YVILG.A. on Wednesday night, it was- -de. 11 cided to hold the sco.uts',!camp durin'g/.the first week in Jauuary, and to lim.it it to'.Sergeants,, patrol leaders, corporals, ,anU first-class scouts. The. following scoutmasters were appointed to act. as the Camp Committee -.—Messrs. Logan, Lawson, Adair, and Dr. Makgill. On Tuesday . next, November. 9, tho Wellington Boy Scouts . will/ 1 assemble at the tram'■ terminus, Brooklyn, at 9.30- a.m. .Each,: patrol. ■or frobp will then, pxercise; wider it? own scoutmaster. It was decidcd to hold the scoutmasters' meeting on thii: iirst; Tiiesday:- in. toch'^month. ; . All scout: masters- are asked to attend. " ■■ : The lisual weekly of thft Y.M.C.A. Pat-'. r.i-', was held on -v Ydnesday night,\whoh Mr. W. Shipton inaugurated a : series-.,0f "Talks; onfest Aid to ,the ,Injured." ; The. talks' will' continue for \the' next six weeks, after which an', examination wjll bo field. .'The'scouts Show' great interest in;this part of the work. Two mem'--bers of the -patrol—Harold• Cofkill, and "Norman:- Moss—last Saturday. passed 'for - their' first; class badges.' \ • ~i : - - - '■'< -.