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Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1922, Page 3

* recent railway interlude, as told in"tlie Dunedin “Star” : Passengers by the express from the north wCx usual, feeling a little weary of the journey, when a young man in one of the ears took a cornet out ot its case, blew through it rattled the pistons, and did other things that usually preZ . little practice. Hie viewed the preparations wth dis< >■ One ventured to say: “Please dont, rve got a headache.” The lad sm.l.ngi answered that he would just pl*>> ever so little and then, if it prove to be a nuisance, he would knot v o . Ho started with “The Rosary’ and nobody objected. He went on with “Bonnie Mary of Argyle,” and >e gentleman with the headache reached over to say that he had never hea.d such cornet playing, and he felt suie the passengers generally felt much liged. As a fact, the performer th o champion solo cornetist of Australia Mr Arthur P. Stender, who is a member of the Collingwood Band and came over to New Zealand under engagement as professional cornet playei U the Wellington W ate r side i. Brass Band, and played m that cecity at the recent contest ill the l north, incidentally winning the cornet solo competition from twenty-five otae.s Though Mr Stender is only twenty two years old he has won the Austi linn championship three times. He is making a holiday tour of New Zealand and was .... his way from Mount Cook to Dunedin when he was so unexpectedly called on to prove himself in the railway carriage.

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