St Andrews College and Christchurch’s Scottish Society emerged the victors in the contested competitions at the annual Christchurch Casino Highland Day, held at the picuresque Ilam Homestead at the University of Canterbury. The day started cool but warmed up significantly. In the solos, Robert Oliver from Auckland won the A Grade Side Drumming and Mason Lee from Dunedin won the Open Bass Drumming. Canterbury Caledonian and ILT City of Invercargil were both uncontested in their respective grades.
Grade 2
MSR
1st St Andrews College (2,2,2,1)
2nd City of Dunedin (1,1,3,4)
3rd Canterbury Caledonian (4,3,2,1)
4th South Canterbury (3,4,4,3)
Judges: Lance Turnbull, Ross Ferguson (Piping), Athol Chalmers (Ensemble), Scott Mitchell (Drumming)
Medley
1st St Andrews College (2,2,1,2) [Ensemble Preference]
2nd City of Dunedin (1,1,2,3)
3rd Canterbury Caledonian Society (3,3,3,1)
4th South Canterbury (4,4,4,4)
Judges: Nigel Foster, David Burrows (Piping), Mark Weir (Ensemble), Wayne Hobbs (Drumming)
Grade 4
MSR
1st Scottish Society HPB (1,1,1,2)
2nd Canterbury Caledonian Society G4 (3,3,2,1)
3rd St Andrews College (2,2,4,3)
4th ILT City of Invercargill HPB (4,4,3,4)
5th McAlpines North Canterbury (5,6,5,5)
6th South Canterbury HPB (6,5,6,6)
Judges: Lance Turnbull, Ross Ferguson (Piping), Athol Chalmers (Ensemble), Scott Mitchell (Drumming)
Medley
1st Scottish Society (1,1,2,1)
2nd Canterbury Caledonian Society G4 (2,2,1,2)
3rd ILT City of Invercargill HPB (3,5,4,4)
4th St Andrews College (4,3,6,3)
5th McAlpines North Canterbury (5,4,3,6)
6th South Canterbury HPB (6,6,5,5)
Judges: Nigel Foster, David Burrows (Piping), Mark Weir (Ensemble), Wayne Hobbs (Drumming)
Juvenile
1st St Andrews College (1,1,1,1)
2nd Canterbury Caledonian Juv (4,4,2,2)
3rd St Andrews College B (3,2,3,5)
4th ILT City of Invercargill (5,3,4,3)
5th South Canterbury Youth (2,5,5,4)
Judges: Lance Turnbull, Ross Ferguson (Piping), Athol Chalmers (Ensemble), Scott Mitchell (Drumming)
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