N.Z. NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 94, 22 April 1935, Page 3

N.Z. NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD

The Eistoddfod: festival which, will cor*, mence on Saturday, May 11, and contmu* until May 25, promises to, be a gieaf success The entries for. dancing are verg heavy and the management proposes t« have mauv full classes adjudicated a.t th# evening sessions. Another f^™^ dancing section is the large number of baTlet !ntri«-22 that have been receive* -and during some of the evening'session* two or three of .these, bajlebr will W seen; with numbers now to the Wellington PIThY-junior vocal ii'nd elocution section^ 'have drawn entries from many d'stari towns and it is also intended to put mat* whole classes in these sections on tlif evening programmes. • ■ '■ A new feature in the Eisteddfod pro. gramme is a section for ■■verse-speaking choirs. Some of these will be heard diir« ing the day but some will be reserved fof the evening sessions. In connection with the programme covef design competition the adjudicators nay« now, made their awards as follo\ys:-< Senior section;—Mr'. J. A. Hamilton, Dun* edin, 1; Mr. D. A. Petrie, Wellington, 2;| Miss R. H Townsend, Levin. 3. Junio^ section-Hugh Stanley, Fcilding, 1; E< Smith, Wellington, 2; Jack' White, Lower. Hutt, 3. T '