MASTERTON MUNICIPAL BAND.
APPOINTED A BATTALION BAND. The Officer commanding the Fifth Battalion Wellington Rifle Volunteers, Lieutenant- Colonel Tate, , has receive 1 the following notice from the Defence Office:—"The acceptance of the services of the Fitth Battalion Band (Masterton Municipal Band) was published in the New Zealand Gazette of August 12th, 1909." This, in effect, means that the Masterton Municipal Band has been appointed Battalion Band for the I district, in succession to the Fifth Ruahine Band (Woodville), recently disbanded by Gazette notice. Their duties will consist in supplying music at parades and encampments, and acting as bearer corps at the latter. They will require to qualify at drills for capitation in the same manner as volunteer companies, and go through a course of lectures and training under, the supervision of the local medical officer Captain P. K. Cook, N.7.M.C., in ambulance work. This appointment will have the effect of putting the local band on a sound footing, and giving them the military status to which for some years they have justly been entitled. We heartily congratulate the officers and bandsmen upon their elevation to military rank
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9575, 23 August 1909, Page 5
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187MASTERTON MUNICIPAL BAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9575, 23 August 1909, Page 5
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