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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 8 May 1913, Page 5

TO BANDSMEN. The championship and also the Challenge Shield at the Palmerston North; Band Contest of 1911 were won hy the j Wellington Garrison Band. They used Hawke’s Excelsior Sonorous Band i Instruments—a. complete set. In the [ first test piece the maximum number j or points was allotted, the judge de-j daring that he had never heard better playing. He commented in cu-| logistic terms the tone and blend. The Wellington Tramway Band, also using a complete set of Hawke’s Excelsior Instruments, won the B Grade. These two successes on such a great occasion, are worthy win;- for Hawke’s, whose instruments are pre-eminent all over the world. Bandsmen, buy a set of Hawke’s—there are honours and I valuable prizes to be won with them! 1 Write for catalogues. Sole agents— The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., 1 Wellington. Local representative, G. i W. Mills, Stationer, Broadway (late I Cargill's).