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MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1958.

THE QUEEN'S TRUMPETERS

PICTURES

MUSICIAN ROY MARSHALL, 19, RASC, from Walford, lays aside his kaxp- phone to fit algulllettes (ornamental cords) on the No. 1 dress tunle which fanfare players will wear in the Abbey.

BAND

SERGEANT - MAJOR William Snowden will con- duct a 70-sireng band from morning

till evening In Parliament Square,

Coronation day.

on

Captain Jean MacDowall, nominated to be musical director of the WEAC Band.

Abbey fanfare teams have a blow-and-polish grooming

S Coronation time nears, the Royal Military School of Music is bursting out of its routine shell, polishing £5,272-worth of silver-plated fanfare instruments, and preparing in a dozen ways to make bright, brassy noises inside and outside Westminster Abbey to the greater glory of Queen Elizabeth II.

Fanfare playing at Coronations is a tricky business. You need to be as much on your toes as a champion boxer or star jockey. Better known as Kneller Hall from the lordly 1709 mansion at Twickenham which has housed it for nearly a century, the RM.SM. is the finest farfare. nursery in the world.

JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK

Into Retirement

EORGE belongs to

By

CHARLES REID

who

-04

served

Coldstream Guards band. A fourth brother now at the Royal Academy of Music, joins the band In April. - Q-TEAM OF 30 CEREMONIAL

Rouline concem is with train- Hall, was one of three brothers ing players (pupils) and con- (two playing clarinet, the other ductors (student- bandmasters) cornet), for 120 staff and regimental gether In the bands of the British Army. At present there are more than 200 pupils, youngsters in their late 'teens and early twenties, who have been posted for a year's Kneller Hall polishing and instruction from unit bands as far away as Malaya and Egypt.

a, that has overllowed through U breed of men whose pipe in the wall on to a garden dass-free hours the pupils they

shed,

enormous

men

Now

in

by

VICTOR

DREES

AT THE CORONATION trumpeters and drummers from Kneller Hall will play fanfares in separate parties inside the -Abbey and outside. This picture shows bandmaster-studenta who have been chosen to play fanfares inside the Abbey during the ceremony. These are the uniforms in which they will be seen. The Instruments carry Kneller Hall heraldia of them are worth nearly £120 each. bannerets. Sonie

FROM THE FILES

100 YEARS AGO

and

private

Sheaffers TM SNORKEL

Sue Dawson And Some Schoolgirls:

Pay A Visit

Το

The

Post Office

It seerns that the Post Office is, with the Peak and the floating restaurants of Aberdeen, to be- come one of the 'sights' of Hongkong.

Mr M. L. Durrant, Assistant Postmaster General, revented on Thursday that a group · of 27 Ying Wah School girls he had just shown round the Post Office was the fifth school group in the past three weeks to have dono the now famous conducted tour! And that is apart from several other individual groups, such as one from the 11th Infantry Brigade, Mrs Gray who accompanied the girls explained that Ying Wuh, like many other Chinese schools, is 'doing' the postal system in senior Eng- lish this year.

That the tour lasted a solid fald is safe and prompt delivery 2% hours gives some idea of the at the right address, no' matter size of organisation needed to where that be, "We pride our cope with a sea, rall and air-selves on having led the way to port of Hongkong's importance..he United Nations Organi- And for the first time in the

on," said Mr Durrent will a Colony's history, this system in smile; "a great deal of patienes adequate to deal with the 80 and tolerance is exerted in our mlilien items which must be dealings, and if international sified every year. Until 1847, | rola. ons ran as amotthly

thly in Government cadets ron the fields, there would not be much Post Office, but in that year.

other

Mr L. C. Saville of the Univer amiss in the world today ch

sal Postal Union was sent here:

From the basement where the

as Postmaster General. He was transit bags of the first real Post Offee man to

are stored,

the Ying Wah girls were taken

about

come to Hongkong, and was up to the sorting department. shortly followed by another-Mr where

Between them they clerks deal-in shifts-with the

Durrant.

three hundred

and out-going

experie

mail, into the speed stuff

have completely, re-organised bag.

the Post Office, installing the

Lontion methods and general

it

which the

layout, and gathering what is, with according to Me Durrant, "works is indicated by the fact that when one ship brought 1,872 Bret class staff","

The Post Office section of the bags of mail last week, the old

has been building

com- whole lot was delivered by the pletely rejuvenated inside, in- 9 a.m., delivery next morning. a large amount of space There are around 10,000 letters inted from the Depart to a bag

ment of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry. Three thousand

J

PO boxes are now on their way machine, from England. On the ground stamps floor, new roundings

counters in

600 A MINUTERIN An' electric stamp cancelling which cancela. 600 (repeat, six hundred sur-stamps) a minute, caused con-

excitement, attractively finished siderable

par- in cream and green will be ticularly when one or two girls open to the public within a themselves fed in the latters.

Here one learns the import

the stamp in apee of sticking the top, right hand corner, or basement, else the machine cannot doat

coun-

the

TRUMPETERS, comprising students and pupils who will be dhrawn up outside the Abbey annexe. Conducted by Kneller Nowhere in the world do you

which ho professed to say had sub-month. Another piracy, accompanied a bear

follier

During Hall Bandmaster G, H. Stunell, uproars.

POSTAL UNION will play fanfares

as by murder, was committed yes-ted him to more lineus in eight days than he had suffered in eight

Our yrars at Hongkong.

the Storting in tertday morning within sight of on their beds in the dormitory various royal coaches arrive,

Salwan, upon two Chinchew opinion that there was good numbers nowadays are not

and huis

practisc different

crews deal of sism about all this, and, where the mailbags are brought with it, and it must be labori

ships and pluies ously stamped market-boats, of whose

head. by like his garb not very well put trom trains, where the pince

Hand-picked exercises in different keys on so great as they once were.

killed and five three were

on: for, except as to the heroine, and dropped through a shaft

learnt in this Another thing a shack

piccolo, tuon, clarinet, cornet,

would his critical skill was evidently at

the sido of the He is the workingman cast George worked, in

pave department was that 10 millon inbelled Used Material Store, etc.

9-TEAM OF 17 CEREMONIAL wounded. The pirates

in Connaught Read, Mr dollars worth of stamps dro in a heroic mould, huge-he had noticed there las a

Tenetes of the other performers in ment → TRUMPETERS AND THREE have got off cafely with their fault in discriminating the excel-at

Betay Baker: and all he could be Durrant

Next gave an

outline of sold here every year. rubber basing. After the dormitory free-for- framed, immensely power-length of old

all hand prizes, had they not been

tumn by

Apartments the Avo got to say regarding

it iacked in their

Universal Postal Union as came

arrangements. Tor Mr and one seemed to have any alt comes ensemble work. Pupils SIDE-DRUMMERS, ful-looking and, now that No

driven, was something about worse imita was in the old days and is now. corting local mall into the use for the tubing, so George and dents are grouped into pleked students, who will be shing-boats,

by each post- the years have put grey in decided-one-day to take four company bands which, after conducted inside the Abbey by ashore at Shek-o, where they

being theternational-Language- The pre-man. A huge map showed that his hair and lines in his length home and with it con- rehearsing separately merge Colonel Roberts himself Sun-unded and escaped-over the term representative of the late French has always been its in-bents' covered

sent system was arranged by a in the centre of the city alone three times a week into a deafen- tioned in full view of the h. A boat from the Spartan same who so well sustained hus

were band's part in Betsy Baker: weathered brown face, avert his leaking overflow into a

police-bont

22 beats The Ying Д Coronation assembly on top of and

We have incidentally referred to German, Dr von Stephan, about there are kind of perpetual garden hose.ing joint band, 250 strong.

party БДЖ everything figure of tremendous

shochorns the great screen which divides despatched to Shek-o yesterday the Prologue, to the performances 60 band

the receiving Joint The

charges there was to see; they watched He put the

country patriarchal dignity.

rubber tubing

the choir from the rave, they evening, and found, the pirate of the evening; and presume it to 60 years ago. It is one in which Wah

of the market be the production of the manager,

de registered letters being court- into a sack after work one day itself for winter sessions into a

specially composed funk and one

to whom too much praise cannot no one for handling and boats, but no trace of her con-

be awarded, not only for this con-livery of mall, under the as-ed (the slips are kept for two You see his like in some of and set off home. He had not smallish rehearsal hall, with oil will play

sort. when a police-paintings of the Duke of Cam- fanfared,

A large those old, faded photographs of gone very far

Portuguese tribution to the amusement in sumption that an equal amount years), saw the parcel depart-

the community, but for the unwearied fanfare players orcha, at anchor outside

ment, the wireless section and The Abbey him, asked him bridge, the school's founder.

exertions by which our little Thea will flow back to those at- trade union gatherings; man stopped early

tries from where the previous even The staff

"Mr canteen. tre la sustained. contained and standing di what the sack

The 40 or so sudent-band- were selected by Colonel Roberts Lyyu-moon, witnessed the

of rentiered no

We leave

it to such

@musing our batch

for Durrant had. came, on a lotter

dome towards the end of last year and teck, bul dently in the back rows of the how he had come by its con-

renders, as were present on Wed-

sarits to tell of the things sented tents. George told the truth masters, all of them NCOs on a dwarfing the

have been practising since thesistance. group,

To men About 2 o'clock on Sundaynesday evening to describe to those letter basis.

in parcels. :: Last for stealing three-year highbrow course, con-

Pareti post is dealt with people send who were not, the telling effect of intellectuals with their high and was arrested

the company and joint beginning of

Drup

on lost, ten

charge Chinese New Year one man air- men, armed

with the Frologue which the appropriate

rather differently, and a bands in half-hour collars, pince-nez and pedogogue. the hosing, which was valued duct

a parcel ol potuto cornet or

slide awords, boarded a small ishing-acling produced; that of the gantic

made according to weight, but freighted by its owners at 158.

stage hoving not upon the prim mouths.

turns, thus ready-

England. Postage Next day

the principle is the same. Every chips to Thames at the

trombone, fanfare boat at anchor near East Point, man instruments

that we trust soon to see him on Court he pleaded guilty to the ing themselves for the Army band-

teasing

ard wounded an old man, and hav-been so branilsleg a maiden effort,

which the mall goes is obliged to theft, before Miss Sybil Camp-

mastering pillaged the boat, landed the inner side of the footfights, post office in the Union through HK$501 masterships which

North-China Iterald, March 26, demanding special with their. booly at Sockungvo, will fall into their

technical tricks. Al- laps after they have passed out.

Kneller Hall strength and their skill in their glowing terms, the story of playe

their. jobs, and that shoddy workman- ship would count with them as George's

indeed, so instruments from a stare of 500, insured as much did they find to say in nearly as serious a crime

£25,000 but that his solicitor for his favour, being a boss's mail.

worth more, was left without much more to George

was a strong union add, except to say that George's should say, at mur

rent prices. It is' man. He rose, indeed, to held wages, in this his 40th year of

91 workc

in the true that some of usually were important office in his union. But it was not only his fellow-region of £0 ds. a week. "He said the workers who held him in high is n man who enu still doo

doy's work," regard; the people he worked good for admired him too, and lie has solicitor, and he will lose his not changed his employers since job as a result of this. That will be heavy punishment for be joined them in 1904.

him."

A UNION MAN

bell.

You sense that these giants, while they fought for their rights, would at the same time 'A TRAGIC THING...'

beJealously proud

of their

HE STAYED ON

THE pollce told.

carcer;

he might

Campbell

in almagt

the instruments are

up a French horn, the metal of I

pretty old. I placed

·COL. ROBERTS-Kneller ›

bell" so thin from

Mali's Director of Music.

+

that light finger-tip

30 years polishing

tone.

to

д

S'HAI THEATRICALS The good folke, of Bhanghai-we so they are fright-

того at eningly dear. With mean the foreign residents

their brethren bass fanfare trem-sensible than

Conlon, have betaken themselves to bones at £119 134. theatricals, in default of more pro- each (they cost only stable employment. We quote from the North-China Herald what can £11 17s. 6d. before scarcely be termed

oritique on the war) and even the performance:

chics

indefatigable zeal the community is

the

the E flat trumpet, Our theatrical manager, to whose smallest of the family, fetching already much indebled, had an opportunity of shewing our visitors £57 128 5d. ds from the Bouth, who helped to against £6 2s. 6d. crowd our little Theatre on Wed- the mettle of our a player will some-nesday night.

Thespians. times dream night-

Amongst these strangers was His Wint marishly

George he Excellency Bir

Boahain. that who was no much delighted. we are not without hopes a report pressure has fallen downstirs with one

an tirs performances may form made it bulge. But, as Charles and smashed it incurably,

the subject of his first despatch trom Shanghai.. For we have it on The price is up A representative of George's Witken Withers, the man in

good authority that, notwithstand- employers presently conflamed change, puts it, "the thinner the

was sent tor ing Jila Excellency the TN George's trade, there is a

that George

the bolter would probably nobel

Near the end of each Instru- express, and has been here several know. He has rule about retiring; men lase both his job and the small Withers should must go when they are 05. gratuity

have been

played instruments or repaired ment, weighting it uncomfort- days, he has really nothing more Foreign Minister: and we may add, George was 65 a year ago, but given later.

them since joining the Worces- ably, hangs eight ounces of important to communicate, to

the par- they allowed him to stay on, for Miss

Lurned to ters as a boy 40 years ago, and Kneller Hall banneret, with its that the scled Prologue with which he wanted to complete his half George, "I'm taking into ne- wasa Royal Scots Fusiliers band- crown and clarions embroidered our Manager, opened

on cloth of gold. Here again farmantes, afforded His Excellency more valuable hints how to trent century of working for this one count your long, good character: master for 10 years,

the current prico is, steep; a the. Sieboilion than all the organisation

This is a tragic thing. I shall

now Kneller Hall, then, has all the dozen

have been lons that have been submitted to discharge you conditionally

We are also glad to be assured run tradition and, equipment it takes crdered at £28 each, compared him since his arrival. It was pride in his work that That means.

that if you

that our Southern friends general- yware agreeably disappointed on made him want to do this, not straight for the next 12 months to put nice brassy trimmings on with £d 12s. 6d. when George

Wednesday evening, not being pre- To use you'll hear no more of this. I Coronation music, Colonel D. C. VI was crowned. any desire for reward hin employers term, George hope I shall not see you here Campbell-Miles (Commandant)

Sull, these prices are worth pared, at this distant port, to ind was not, in any case, "super-again."

only to maintain acting such as they seldom

surpassed. Indeed we have it in annuable," though he might

for Kneller Hall's prestige. At the vonndence from a tall whiskered have been given a gratuity when "Never, never," sald George, and his great frame shook, and

regimental end fewer boys are Male, who occupied a front seat, disguised in a draes cont. that, al. then he had completed his 50 years, the broad acreage of his waist-

applying for band jobs

though Hongkong. Theatre, is now up,in It would have amounted to cost rose, and feil, as he spoke.

used to be the case, because they more conveniently fitted can get more extru pay as Army Comparison. But then, he in

acting Shanghai would not suffer between £30 and £40.

He went out to begin his life

has been Baxosts that our Ilead- -BAND OF 70 PUPILS AND "trademen" than as

STUDENTS will entertain phonists, bassoonists and the brought from

like. But Knoller Half still has however he crowd with light and patrolle

exhibit, bimself. entinnts waiting list, A PRIVATE OPINION selections all day long (except an

bands tend to show - we have endeavoured to extract inWhether during the actual ceremony), in bigger or smaller, there is always from the same authority opinions Parliament Square. Of all route

this will be the and a musical cream. Kneller Hall and in greater detall, of the other performare--in short to make him contribuita a ecitique in convers nearest the Abbey. Conductor will ensures that the cream rizos to

Lion, this penmanship, would hor

compositors): but wa rityour. be Band Sergeant-major Willem the top.

student. World Copyright Reserved-bondon were compelled instead to submit to a tirado against pur climate, Snowden, 20, a senior stu who before coming to Kneller Express Services)

Since his wife died, two, years of retirement, ago, George has lived on his own home in South-East at h London.

For some Ume there:ho has had trouble with a water-tabit

What's His Line?" Solution

CIVIL ENGINEER London 'Kapruse 'Bervical

Printed and published by WAM ALICK-GHINHAM. for and on behalf of South Ching Morang Port Limited at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, In the Colony of Hongkong,

- colonel Meredith and Lieut

three teams grooming Roberta (Director of Music) are while Coronation Day:

Musical brothers

if

Hongkong.

where

to

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