OUR BANDS.
EQUAL TO AUSTRALIA’S BEST. (By Telegraph—Press Association.') . CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. “The A grade bands of New Zealand could hold their own in a contest with Australian combinations and judging by the playing at the lust Sydney contest there is only one band which could compare with the first three Dominion A’s,” states Mr E. Jackson, of Brisbane, who was Judge of ; the concerted work and of cornet solos championships at the New Zealand contest, which concluded on Saturday, The Australian band to which Mr Jackson referred was the newly formed combination from Hamilton, a small mining town near Newcastle. The first three New Zealand bands which he declared were better than any in Australia save the Hamilton band are Queen Alexandra’s Own (Wanganui), Kaikorai (Dunedin) and Greymouth Municipal.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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130OUR BANDS. Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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