{"id":1112,"date":"2021-10-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging.pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/2021\/10\/25\/south-pacific-pipe-band-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T14:19:09","slug":"sppbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/2021\/10\/25\/sppbc\/","title":{"rendered":"South Pacific Pipe Band Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A newly signed&nbsp;agreement between the Royal New Zealand Pipe Band Association and Pipe Bands Australia will see a triennial South Pacific Pipe Band Championship held in conjunction with the two countries\u2019 National Pipe Band Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Zealand will host the first of the series with the 2023 South Pacific Pipe Band Championship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RNZPBA President Ian Blakely and PBA President Ainsley Hart recently signed off on the new agreement following discussions between the two organisations and PBA Council ratification at this year\u2019s National Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full prospective schedule is&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2023 \u2013 New Zealand<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2026 \u2013 Australia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2029 \u2013 New Zealand<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2032 \u2013 Australia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>We hope that bands from Australia, New Zealand and accross our region including Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore will consider including these dates in their forward planning and we all look forward to these years being truly international contests.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ainsley Hart &#8211; President Pipe Bands Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly signed\u00a0agreement between the Royal New Zealand Pipe Band Association and Pipe Bands Australia will see a triennial South Pacific Pipe Band Championship held in conjunction with the two countries\u2019 National Pipe Band Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-champs","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/newsouthwales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}