PIPE BAND CONTEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 8

PIPE BAND CONTEST

DOMINION GATHERING

Arrangements for the contest to be held at Athletic Park on January 26 and 27, 1940, were further advanced at a recent meeting of the Dominion Pipe Band Contest Committee. Mr. C. Stewart presided.

; The secretary reported that the number of competing bands would equal, and possibly exceed, the entries at the last Dominion contest. The probable entrants were the Ruahine. Highland Pipe Band, City of Chi'istchurch Pipe Band, Wanganui, Highland Pipe Band, Manawatu Scottish. Society's Pipe Band, Wellington Caledonian Society's Pipe Band, Hastings Scottish Society's Pipe Band, Feilding Caledonian Pipe Band, Wairarapa College Pipe Band, Canterbury Caledonian Society's Pipe Band, Wellington Police Highland Pipe Band, Scottish Society of New Zealand's Pipe Band, Pipes and Drums, Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment. City of Wellington Pipe Band, and Scots College Pipe Band.

The secretary was authorised to procure badges for officials in the tartan of the Black Watch, and to book the Town Hall for the evenings of January 26 and 27 for the test selections. A varied programme of items will be given between the selections, and a committee was appointed to make the arrangements.

It was resolved that a combined display by the Wellington pipe bands be held at Athletic Park on a Sunday in December, a committee of the pipemajors x and drum-majors to make the necessary arrangements.

A vote of sympathy with Mr. J. M. Robertson, secretary of the Buller Caledonian Society, in the death of his brother on active service was passed.