FIGHT TO A FINISH.
BAND VEKSUS ALL-COMERS. A laudable effort to please everybody led to something like a contretemps at the Coronation Exhibition yesterday afternoon. Just as Mr. Tho?. Ballinger, as chairman of the Executive Committee, was about to deliver the opening address, the Tramways Hand, located in tho main Inhibition, commenced playing. Tho speaktv continued, but all that could be heard was Hie brassy sound of lusfiljblown comets, and the bang of a distant drum. After a few minutes of this uneoual struggle Mr. Ballinger gave up, and waited until the baud had hc*n
silenced. It broke out afresh during the singing of the "Soldiers' Chorus" from "Faust," by tho Wellington Liedertafel, with most 'peculiar effect, and, this time, there was a good fight to a finish. Honours were oven.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1136, 25 May 1911, Page 6
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131FIGHT TO A FINISH. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1136, 25 May 1911, Page 6
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