WANGANUI GARRISON BAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 170, 27 October 1910, Page 5

WANGANUI GARRISON BAND.

CIVIO RECEPTION IX .MELBOURNE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 26, 9 p.m. Melbourne, October 20. The Lord Mayor officially received the Wanganui Garrison Band at the Town Hall, and extended on behalf of the citizens of Melbourne a cordial welcome. He congratulated them on the great honor of winning the Australasian championship. He was delighted to think that a small town in a sister Dominion displayed such pluck and enterprise by sending a band such a long distance at such expense. They might feel proud jof no mean honor. In Xew Zealand the band had an unbeaten record for eight t years, and now they added fresh and greater laurels, not only in music but in marching. It was most creditable to New Zealand, and to Wanganui in particular. The visit of the New Zealanders, he said, was another evidence of the fine spirit which prompted the Dominion to take a prominent part in the past in important Imperial questions. Mr. Muir, the manager, replied on behalf of the Band. An organ recital was specially arranged for the Band in the Town Ilall this afternoon. THE ADJUDICATOR'S EULOGY. EQUAL TO BRITAIN'S BEST. Received 26, 9 p.m. Melbourne, October 26. The adjudicator in the Ballarat contest, Mr. Shortt, said the leading bands in the competition would hold their own with any band in Great Britain. He had never heard Code, the champion cornetist, equalled.