COMPETITIONS AT LEESTON

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28371, 2 September 1957, Page 7

COMPETITIONS AT LEESTON

All Sessions Well Attended

Attendances were good at all sessions of the annual musical, elocutionary, and dancing competitions at Leeston. Items were given by the Ellesmere Brass Band and the Ellesmere Highland Pipe Band. The judges were: vocal and instrumental, Mr G. Martin; dancing, Mrs Jean Paton; elocution. Miss T. Annas Gale. Awards were:—

Highland Fling, 8 years and under 6.—Gaye Ferguson 1. Marie Hales 2. Song in Character. 7 years and under.—Cushla Johnson 1.

Sailor’s Hornpipe, under 10.—Gaye Ferguson 1. Recorder Solo (open).—Leigh Brown 1, Roberta Galletly 2. Jennifer Wagner 3. Best Eentertainment.—lrwell Dancing Class 1. Vocal Solo, girls 10 and under 13. Heather Bruce 1, Wendy Brown 2. Irish Jig, 8 and under 10.—Gaye Ferguson 1. Marie Hales 2. Pianoforte Duet, 12 and under 15. — Patricia Free and Maureen Smith 1. Elizabeth and Mary West 2. Lorraine Cottom and Noeline Milne 3. Any other entertainment, open.— Roberta Galletly and Barry Lucas (equal) 1. Highlartti Fling, 12 and over.—Beryl Wards 1, Suzanne Barker 2.

Scottish Song, open.—-Judith Slattery 1.

Pianoforte Solo. 16 and under 18.— Roger Doak 1. Highland Fling, novice, under 10.— Colleen Staunton 1. Marie Hales 2. Lynn Baxter 3. Vocal solo under 21.—Josephine O’Boyle 1. Character,' demi-character or character, story dance, 10 years and over.—Pamela Orchiston 1. Jillian Orchiston 2.

Vocal solo. women. open.—Miss Lorna Gilbert 1.

Sword Dan<?e. under 18 years.— Colleen Staunton 1. Gaye Ferguson 2. Marie Hales 3. Vocal Solo. 9 years and under.— David Johnson 1.

Sailor’s Hornpipe, 10 and over.— Beryl Wards 1. Gail Parrant ,2. Suzanne Barker 3. Seann Triubhais, 10 and over.— Bervl Wards 1. Gail Parrant 2, Jean Wicketts 3.

Operatic Dance, 10 and over.— Pamela Orchiston 1. Roberta Galletly 2 Jillian Orchiston 3.

Scottish Song. 15 and under.Heather Bruce 1. Janet Stalker 2 Highland Fling. 10 and under 12. Gail Parrant 1. Janet Stalker 2. Jean Wicketts 3.

Sacred Solo. any voice.—John Withell 1. Josephine O’Boyle 2. Highland Fling, novice. 10 years and under 12.—Gweneth Mclnnes 1 Mary Mason 2. Carol Nicolle 3.