COMPETITIONS AT TIMARU

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25548, 16 July 1948, Page 2

COMPETITIONS AT TIMARU

100 MORE ENTRIES THAN LAST YEAR Competitors from as far afield as Wellington and Bluff will attend the eighteenth annual competitions festival which will open at Timaru on August 21. Entries, which closed yesterday, number 2250, which is 100 more than last year’s. There has been an increase of more than 400 in the last four years. Details of entries in the various sections with the increases over last year’s in parenthesis are as follows: - national dinting, 978 (7); fancy dancing, 470 (14); vocal, 344 (36); 172; elocution, 275 (40); miscellaneous, 11. Judges will be Miss Ailsa Docherty (national dancing), Mrs Margaret Hamilton (fancy dancing), Mrs Molly Faulks (elocution). Mr A. W. Gibb (vocal and instrumental), Mr R. Milligan (brass instruments), Mr W. Cargo (bagpipe). During the festival, which is expected to last eight days, 50 challenge trophies, six South Canterbury championships in national dancing, and seven South Canterbury scholarships in various sections will be decided. A feature will be the elimination contest for the Madame Melba vocal scholarship, the New Zealand final of which wilj be decided at the centennial competitions in Dunedin.