
Napier Volunteer Band possessed ‘one of the best’ sets of instruments in NZ: Gail Pope
On March 19, 1882, Gilberd boarded the SS Te Anau with friends George Swan, J Laurensen and R Barrows, bound for the “Old Country” with a “large number of well-wishers assembled to bid them adieus”. In England, Gilberd selected and arranged the purchase …