The Sale Drum and Fife band has been reorganised, and under the instruction of its old bandmaster, Mr. E. Carey, is making very satisfactory progress.
It now numbers 20 members, some of whom formed part of the original. It practises three times a week, and Mr. Carey is hopeful that in a week or two he will be able to bring out a portion to enable the public to judge of the progress made.
Mr. Carey has received a number of new instruments from Melbourne, and has been at a good deal of trouble in getting a few of the old drums put to rights.
The band is desirous of thanking the public for its liberal subscriptions, but the boys now pay a weekly subscription each, thus making it self-supporting. The want of a band has long been felt, and in that respect we are much behind places of far less pretensions. It is, therefore, to be hoped that Mr. Carey's efforts will meet with a due reward, and that in a short time the reproach will be removed that the metropolis of Gippsland had not spirit enough to keep together for any time such a band an almost every little township in the colony possesses.
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