CAMP BANDS
MARTIAL MUSIC AT FEATHERSTON. Featherstou Military Camp is well provided with bands at present. There is.the Camp Brass Band, under Bandmaster Wicks, and the Trumpet and Bugle Band, under Bandmaster Chegwin, while the three Reinfoycements in camp at Featherstou _and Tauhercnikau have bauds in various' stages of training and formation. That of the 18th Reinforcements is in full swing, Bandmaster Phelung being in charge, and the 19th and 20th Reinforcements will soon havo their own. bands to head them in their marching. A new practice has been inaugurated in the camp, under which the troops aro played from their quarters to the parade ground and vice versa twice a day." The effect of this is to make these routine marches much more lively and picturesque. A march, entitled "Featherston," composed by Bandmaster AYicks, has been accepted by the Camp Commandant, Lieut.-Colonel N. P. Adaras,_ as the camp's regimental march. It is a stirring composition, and will ho played in Wellington when the Seventeenth Reinforcements march past the saluting base during their parade'in the city, which mil take place in all probability next week.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2870, 7 September 1916, Page 5
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185CAMP BANDS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2870, 7 September 1916, Page 5
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