BAND CONTEST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1051, 14 February 1911, Page 6

BAND CONTEST.

j COMPETITIONS AT PALMERSTON : I I;' , . north. |V* ; ; (By Telegraph.—l'ress Association.) J-7' Palmerston North, February 13. The fourteenth'annual , brass band con- • tost opened here this evening, when'tho boprano cornet .solos' wero taken. ..Seven- ■ . tceh. bands; are engaged' in tho -twO;.fest' . , pieces,. which are set down, lor Tuesday: and-'Friday nights.. To-morrow the bands r " will bo', officially.^welcomed. On Wcdnes- ' . day.'hfternoon tho. quickstep competition r '. takes; plaeo on tho show grounds.."Mornington.'Kaikorai.'Dannovirke, and Waliganui City Hands havo withdrawn from < tho contest, but special interest is being i taken, in the meeting of tho Wellington i . nnd Wanganui Garrison Bands on Tucs- | day. night, also in' tho quickstep compe- !. titiod/' this being ,tho first occasion they 1 havo met for. several years. Mr. W. Short, t. the King's Trumijcter,: who judged tho s . Ballarat contest, .is judging hero , also.' : There'arc twenty-two-bands in town. ; i The E Flat soprano cornet solo com-' .petition was. won by IV C. Wilkinson, Gisborne City, 78 'points; W., Francis, i Wellington Garrison, second,-75; R. Wat-. ' son, Petone Municipal, third, 73. Other • . points scored were; L. Neighbours, West- | port'Gavrison, G6; J. Trussell, Wanganui Garrison, (H; S. Cooml>es, Marton ,lt«yal, G3; W. Nicholls, Taranaki Garrison, 52; J. A. Kibbie, Waitara Municipal, 49; J. ; Thomas, WaThi Federal, 48. . 13 Flat Baritone.—G. .Tcnsen, Wanganui ; Garrison, 80 points, 1; C. Brcen, 'Welling--1 ;■ ton Garrison, 78 points, 2; J. Cosgrove, )■!' Gisborne City, &1 joints, 3. 11. Christcn--son, Ashburtcm Temperance, secured CO it,V points;- and H. Boyd, Wanganui Garri-' X' eon, 59. is To-morrow morning will bo devoted to the solos, and the afternoon and evening : to tho test selections. . <