The Second Nelson Infantry Battalion Band has a membership of twenty-six persons, and the band is equipped with a full set of brass instruments. Officers for the year 1905: H. Seymour, conductor; W. Garth, bandmaster; W. Cox, deputy bandmaster; and H. Rogers, secretary.

Mr. Harry Seymour was appointed Conductor of the Second Nelson Infantry Battalion Brass Band in February, 1905. He was born in the year 1869 at Swinden, Wiltshire, England, where he was educated, and learned engineering. Mr. Seymour subsequently adopted the musical profession, and was for some time connected with theatrical companies in London and the provinces, and conducted an orchestral band of his own. He came to New Zealand in December, 1904, and arrived in Wellington, by the s.s. “Gothic.” Mr. Seymour afterwards fulfilled professional engagements in Auckland, appeared at Government House with the City Band, and removed to Greymouth in 1905, to take charge of the Second Nelson Infantry Battalion Band. He married a daughter of the late Mr. George Thompson, of Cheltenham, England, in the year 1889, and has one daughter.