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CAPTAIN T. HERD. NOTED BAND CONDUCTOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The death is reported of Captain T. Herd, aged 82. For years under his conductorship the Wellington Garrison Band achieved a series of successes in band contests. He arrived in Wellington in 1885 and took charge of the band which was then in a weak slate. He soon worked it up to good contest form. He conducted the Hinemoa (New Zealand) band which toured England in 1903 and gave a command performance before the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1908. He was presented by the Governor-General Sir Chai'les Fergusson with the colonial auxiliary forces’ officers decoration. Captain Herd successfully conducted orchestras and drum and fife bands, as well as brass bands and adjudicated at many band contests including that at Ballarat in 1901. < He leaves a wife and in another two years thej l would have celebrated their golden wedding.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1940, Page 6
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