MARCHING
JUNIOR COMPETITIONS IN WELLINGTON (New Zealand. Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 18. Blue Star Taxis (Christchurch) won the award for the best midgets’ team in the Wellington Marching Association midget and junior competitions today. Anne Smith (Sumner School for the Deaf) gained the award for best leader, and her school team shared with two others the award for the best display. Twenty-nine teams competed. Members of -the team from the School for the Deaf could not hear the whistle of their leader or the band music. The marching was done to counting. Each movement was made at the end of a stipulated number of steps. Mr B. Hogue, the girls’ coach and a teacher at the school, said the team had practised about three times a day for a week before the competition. “The practices had to be short, as it is a great stiain on the girls to remember the counts for movements and the order in which they come,’’ he said.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28129, 19 November 1956, Page 7
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