CITIZENS’ BAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 April 1921, Page 3

CITIZENS’ BAND.

NW CONDUCTOR APPOINTED. ARRIVING NEXT TUESDAY. Out of eight applicants the committee of the New Plymouth Citizens’ Band has appointed Mr. R. L. Lowe, at present bandmaster and solo cornet for the Wellington Watersiders’ Band, as conductor, and he will arrive in New Plymouth on Tuesday next to take charge of the band. At a meeting of the committee on Monday night the applications had been reduced to three, from which the final selection was made yesterday morning. , Mr. Lowe has had 28 years’ experience with brass bands, twenty years of which were with leading brass bands in England. For four years he was principal solo cornet of the Pemberton Old Band, winner of several prizes at Belle Vue championship contests. He has also assisted such bands as Wingate’s Temperance, Cgossfields, Irwell Springs and Foden’s as principal cornet, and from 1905 to 1913 was conductor of the North Ashton Band. This position he relinquished when he came out to New Zealand to conduct the Westport Garrison Band. Whilst with the North Ashton Band he won first prizes, one second, two thirds, in one year, and while with the Westport Garrison Band he worked it up for four contests with the following results:—Reefton, 1913, first prize; Westport, 1914, first prize; Cape Foul wind, 1914, first prize; Christchurch, IDIS, third in march, second in quartette, three first solosj two seconds and three thirds. Mr. Lowe himself ie the holder of two West Coast cornet championships.