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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1057, 21 February 1911, Page 7

V ' ~ ~~ It was with Hawkes' .Excelsior sonor-ous-liaml instruments that tho Wellington Garrison Bond and tho Wcllinqtm Trannvav Band won championship honours at Palmerslon North Inst week from, all-comers. The Drwsd»n Piano Company, l.td., arc solo agents for llawkcs in Now Zealand, and always curry a stronß stock of this maker's very thus instruments. The annual meeting of the Wellington Choral Society will he,held in St. John's Schoolroom. Dixon Street, on Monday, February 27, at 8 o'clock. Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co. announce in this issue particulars of their weekly solo of superior household furnishines, piano, and effects, to be held at their rooms, 2G Brandon Street, to-morro.v (Wednesday). Over three hundred shofblacks assembled at the premises of Messrs. Day and Martin on Jiiuuar.v 2 to receivo ' their. New Year's Rift of half a sovereign each. They stood in a queue, and then, one by one. produced their licenses and other evidence of Rood character. Many of them were'deaf or cripplfd, and quito a number bad served'in the Army,