ARMY BANDS
NEW INSTRUMENTS FOR MIDDLE EAST RECEIVED FROM NEW ZEALAND. SOME SOLID REHEARSALS. * (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. January 13.' After being without instruments for seven months the 4th and sth Infantry Brigades in the Middle East are happy in again having received replacement sets, sent by the National Patriotic Fund Board. These two bands lost their original instruments in Greece and Crete. New instruments were selected in the Dominion by Flight Lieutenant Gladstone Hill, Director of Music to R.N.Z.A.F. Bands and Advisory Officer to the Patriotic Fund Board. The instruments arrived in Egypt last month and letters from the two bandmasters, Dean Goffin of the 4th Brigade and Lieut. Claude Miller of the sth Brigade, describe the pleasure this has given and pay tribute to the selection made. The bandsmen were as keen as mustard to get going. They had had some solid rehearsals and there was hard work to get back to the old standard. “Still.’’ says Lieut. Miller. “I think we will have a better band.”
The new instruments were not easy to obtain and much time was spent in getting them together. They arrived in good order.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1942, Page 2
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