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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 65, 12 March 1912, Page 3

FORMING A BAWD. Jt is a healthy sign of the times that every town and village wants its band. If you are forming one in your locality, it will be to your advantage to communicate at once with the Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., Wellington. They are sole agents for Hawkes’ Excelsior Sonorous Band Instruments. Those are the lincst in the world. They are used by champion bands everywhere. The Ballarat City Band won the Australasian Championship again last year, playing on Hawkes’ instruments. They are superb in quality and tone. Each instrument "is specially tuned by one of the most highly skilled musicians in London. The inclusion of one, two, or three Hawkes’ instruments in a band is immediately noticeable, owing to the great added richness of the tone. A band all Hawkes’ must be the acme of perfection, so far as the instruments go. Write in for particulars. The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., Wellington. North Island manager: M. J. Brookes. Local representative: G. W. Mills, stationer, Broadway. Stratford (late Cargill’s).