THE PRIZE-LIST.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 5

THE PRIZE-LIST.

The following is a list of championships:—Women's elocution championship, no award; men's elocution championship, no award; girls' elocution championship, Miss Paddy, Turner; boys' elocution championship,: Master Murray Todd; piano championship, no award; women's vocal championship, no award; men's vocal championship, no award; dancing championship, Miss Bobby Scott. No awards were made in sections in which no competitor scored at least 60 per cent, of possible championship points, on the basis of 5 for a first, -3 for a second, and 1 for a third. In the classes in which there were:no awards there were so many good competitors that no one of them secured the requisite percentage of- points. Scholarships ■ vere won as follows:— Piano (Chas. Begg and-Co;), Miss Zita McMahon-Bbx; men's vocal ("Evening Post," Blundell Bros.), Mr. Len Kerr; women's vocal ("Evening Post," Blundell Bros.), Miss Eunice Standen; vocal, untrained voices (Hamilton Dickson), Miss Nancy Collins.: •. .•■•-.-. Special awards were made as follows:—S;r Harry Lauder Cup, Miss Kathleen Chappie; vocal aggregate, Nimmo Shield, Mr. Len Kerr; diamond : ring presented by Mr. L: J. Brabin, Miss Kathleen Chappie; church choir, Begg's Shield, St. Stephen's Church Choir; children's choir, Wellington Music Traders' Shield, Napier Intermediate • School; piano-accordion championship, Nimmo Cup : and gold medal, Mr. H. Unwin; piano-accordion amateur championship, the Burton College Cup, Mr. K. P. Burnett; men's elocution aggregate, Mayer and Kean Medal, Mr. Nat. Beatus; women's elocution aggregate, L. R. Partridge Medal, Miss Una Weller; picture story ballet, Mrs. Barton Ginger Cup, Miss Jeane Home School; popular song hit, Grace Moore Cup, Miss Conele Pulley; chief piano solo, Nimmo Challenge Cup, Mr. Keith Picton; dancing aggregate, 14 ,to 16 years, Brice and Brice Cup, Miss Bobbie Scott; dancing aggregate, 8 to 10 years, Roselyn Walker Cup, Miss Joy Smith; toe dance, highest marks in each of three classes, Selfridges Challenge Cup, Miss Phyllis O'Shea; dancing aggregate, 10 to 12 years, cup presented by an anonymous donor, Miss Audrey Allardyce; national dancing cup, presented by an anonymous donor, Miss Leah Kerr; elocution aggregate, 12 to 16 years, challenge cup presented by Mr. Assheton Harbord, Murray Todd; acrobatic challenge cup, presented by Jocelyn G. Smith Studio. Miss Valeric Simpson; eccentric dance, open, champion belt, Master Ralph Wilkin; elocution, New Zealand test recital, special prize presented by Boots Ltd., Miss Kathleen' Read; men's elo cution test recital, gold watch. presented by Mr. E. A. Joselyn, Mr. R. Burgess; classical dance, over 16, trophy presented by Yardley and Co., London ; (Roy S. Smith, representative), Miss Joan Mabin; operatic dance, over 16, trophy presented by Messrs. Pot- ■

ter and Moore, London, Miss Joan Mabin; Shakespearean recitation, trophy presented by Mr. H. J. S. Rickard, Miss Una Weller; lecturette, prize of a week's trip to National Park, presented by the New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau, Mr. J. Osborne; the "Dominion" aria contest, Mr. A. E. Ghappell; elocution, 16 to 21,' trophy presented by Turnbull and Jones, Miss Una Weller; elocution, 12 to 16, trophy [presented by the "Hutt and Petone i Chronicle," G. Teward; dancing, trophy presented by the D.1.C., Miss Bobby Scott; Begg's New Zealand piano championship, 90-guinea piano, Miss Jacelyn Walker. '