PETER PAN IS PLEASED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 211, 7 September 1927, Page 18

PETER PAN IS PLEASED.

COMPETITORS DO EXCELLENT WORK

HIGH STANDARD IN ALL COMPETITIONS

Dear Boys and Girls, — This week's competitions were indeed a pleasure to judge, for the 7 k l^.. wlll,al exception, excellent. Perhap. it i, the effect of the school holidays—perhaps the subject, set appealed to your tastes; but the tact remains that during last week I corrected some of the best work yet received at this office. The painting competition entries were very artistic, especially that of Madge Lynes, who showed great taste in her choice of colours. Joyce bheath . P :cture, a close second, was a beautiful piece of work, and scored over Palmer Lidgard . by a narrow margin. Finally I decided to award two extra prizes of 2/ to Joan Beale and Phyllis Ball, whose work quite reached pria, standard. It was pleasing to note new names amongst the winners. Madge Lynes will have to look to her laurels if she i. to keep her position at the top of the list. In the Little One's section of the competition the work was quite good; • * am * fra »a «<>nie must have received help from older brothers and sisters. This, of course, is not fair >- the others, and I hope that in future all such competitions will be your «„... work entirely. I feel that 200-300 words does not give you sufficient scope with which to work on our serial story, and so have now increased the length to 400 words. Originality was the keynote of this competition. I was amazed to see how well the hundreds of entrant, brought our two friends to the second stage in their exciting adventures. Hazel Smith's story appears elsewhere; almost equally good was the work of Mervyn Nixon, who brought the beys face to face with the "ghost" while Stephen Boughtwood allowed them a short glimpse of the castle. The thrilling sights they saw were to be disclosed in the following icstalm. nt. Other good work was by Marion St. John Biggs, Mona Wright, and Betty Dale. Our old friends, the Jigglers, seem to have excelled themselves this week. All will agree with me that Thelma Clarke struck upon a bright idea when she introduced the jiggle into the forelegs of her horse. Then again look at Stella Insull's drawing. Her'., too, was a clever idea. I was quite pleased to see Margaret Shaw's work again; as usual H places her in the prize-winning list.

This week we have four more *» £f} competitions which should prove «****vTw general favourites. As I expect I **** heavy entries, my advice is to send ' V^tT QAfi'^^^^ yours in as soon as possible. **^V-^*^^