ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 10

ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND

' DEPARTtIKE MR HO3IE. The metrites of tfao Royal Artillery Band, who Uavo. beoii' lutctse.-" engagefflisnt at the Auclvfand IvxjiilfjT.ion■ i'tir tijt> ivast tlircs ■.tnon.ftfs, safinH' fir J&gissd iti; thp , Buapeh'i}' yflsibrfey afternoon,; slr. Ci. Bitot., president of the Anejs!a:Hd JSxlitbit-JDii : Executive,' liad eobi6 dowii to ta&e-'leavo ef'tbo band ■liG.rpratod.tho Hot. ".W. F. Jfatssey (ftirao ilinistw) atiijomjjanfed luuj.to th'o sliip'just'bc.iofo the lwttr, ;• 'fte baud iJaradcd on the de&k of fe steamer, aiid J..h\ SlasScy _ addassed tie-pi vtirjf briefly. Up' iiad' great ftlbaf sure, be said, ill 'cscpieaw&g on of t'fio pwplc -of Jseiv Zealand their h*Ji appreciation. «f■ tho *ork sf this band ivuvlo. Boft soeitally ajj.d tho' tour-, had b-eca'of exceiJtfcn'iH value, as all iniih • visits 4M , gdod ill bruigjii'g thft pM : J>)p of tta> Q'td Cfliiintiy into closer Heifck iviih tbosft 'of 'tiw faf-ojf BojiiHiious, and iti stiniukring Imperial citizenship. Hβ wielicd to voice tho j pjfeasure of tho] teiis"of t ; li.ousa.ifds of , fKOpte, pot «uly in Aucfejaijd, , svlioio the Dai\ti hdd' spoilt- most of its tiftie-,' but all ov-cf tio; Bbmimen, irho li;ad had the good fortuuo to lMar'thoir xiitusic." . lie fevs sure tfat tjbose- p.eopls regretted ex* iromely that tlip timefcad eomo for fte ba»d to go home again, l>6 , bopeil-, us'iip n ? as stire all tho .people, of A'-oiv Zealand -hopod-j tkVifc all tio. menjberrof tlw hand jiaa'had a good time'in NewZpFiiaid. H.e wishod them a safq tekim to tho Homeland aiitl tp thtiir regferent. On bpi-ialf of iha b.aiid, -Captain .PreM-t-&H, B-.A., Prime Jl-juister for liis good wishes, and- fer his cotsrtosy in conHHg d<Vffn-. to ttw*sliip to bid the f band goaa-bj'fv Hi? fssjsiiral Mr. M-assey that thelittttd would carry back to Eiig-' laiuj tte most plpasant ntcmorios of tikis: rtsit to Fwv..-7i(?a-lit-n.d. At his invitation the, nitnnber-s.ef the Ihiikl giivo tliJ'-e* ycfy testy otecye'foT tho Pfw : io -Miitister.' '