Trip To Christchurch Part Of Essay Prize

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30424, 24 April 1964, Page 2

Trip To Christchurch Part Of Essay Prize

Miss Janinka Chuml, of Auckland, arrived in Christchurch yesterday for a fiveday visit which is part of her prize for winning the national essay competition, arranged by the Christchurch Shakespeare Festival committee, on the subject “Shakespeare after four centuries.”

“I enjoyed doing the essay very much,” said Miss Chuml. “Shakespeare is quite real today. His characters portray real life which does not change. I like Shakespeare and have read a few of his plays which we have not studied at school.” She especially likes “The Tempest”. Miss Chumi is 16 years old and in the lower sixth form at Sacred Heart Convent, in Remuera. She intends to go to university when she leaves school and then take up teaching as a profession. She has entered many Commonwealth essay competitions before, mainly for study rather than the competition. “I do a little bit of writing in my own time but purely for myself,” she said. Miss Chuml was shown around the airport on her arrival in Christchurch yesterday. She attended a lunch hour reading of Shakespeare’s plays and then went to Christchurch Girls’ High School with Miss Linda Cox, who won the Christchurch section of the essay competition. Last evening she went

to the repertory production of “Coriolanus.” Before she returns to Auckland on Monday Miss Chuml will attend a reading of Shakespearian plays and will fly to Milford Sound.