Thorndon Quay was enlivened by thg sounds of "music" yesterday morning just prior to the departure of the Main Trunk express for Auckland. On. their way ■to the station a number of joliyi Jack Tars from H.M.S. Pioneer, who are on holiday leave, formed themselves into a small company, threo abreast, and. headed by one of their number, playing <m accordion, marched towards the'train. Great amusement was caused by the lirttie band, for tliey were' out for inn, and a big corpulent man witli the instrument was ably assisted-by his comrades .in playing such airs as "Tho Girl I Left Behind 'Me" and "a Life on ths Ocean Wave," by means of hat boxes on<i each, improvised iustruments. When the station. ' was reached the nuaibar was con-* sidcrably augmented by numerous other Tars, and. it was a happy, jolly crowd of "sons of the sea" who, when the is-* press pulled out, lbft a few comrades be-,, hind with expressions of •rojjret on their.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19101223.2.25.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1007, 23 December 1910, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
164Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1007, 23 December 1910, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in