PIPE BAND CONTEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1939, Page 4

PIPE BAND CONTEST

WAIRARAPA’S PERFORMANCE. LARGE CROWD APPRECIATIVE. A Wairarapa visitor to Christchurch at the time of the New Zealand Pipe Band’s Dominion contest speaks with the highest praise of the performance of the Wairarapa College Pipe Band. Although not securing a high place ! n the quickstep and test selection, the band won unstinted applause from the huge crowds, its smartness, steadiness on parade (for which it secured highest marks) and general performance being very favourably commented upon on all sides. In the street march, open to both A and B grade bands, the band was seventh out of thirteen, the leading five bands being A grade and Wairarapa’s marks being only 2 below the winners. ■ ■ j Those who witnessed the drum major’s display at Addington on the Sunday afternoon will long remember the spectacle, when at the commencement the Timaru Highland Pipe Band took its stand in the centre of the grounds and played “Abide With Me” and the huge concourse of people stood and joined in the singing. The massed bands with about 150 pipers and 50 drummers marched round the grounds at the conclusion of the display, the colourful uniforms and stirring music providing a fitting climax to a most successful contest.