THE COMPETITIONS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 August 1925, Page 9

THE COMPETITIONS.

THIS MORNING’S SESSION

JUDGE’S COMMENTS

The second day of the Hawera Competitions commenced this morning, when recitations were heard.

At its conclusion the judge (Mr Warwick) said it had been a most interesting class. There was so much even work that he was going to recall several competitors. There was one tiny girl \yho whs handicapped, and he was going to include her in the recalls because she had done so well. He would say that there was one young lady who —and he would mention no numbers—if she performed as well tonight as to-day would be very hard to beat. He drew attention again to the most important features of inflection and pausation, and emphasised again the absolute necessity of correct enunciation. When a word ended in a consonant and the next word began with the same consonant there was one easy way to make them clear, and that was to drop the jaw slightly, and if practised this would come easy. Another fault to which he drew attention was calling “dew” as “jew,” and also the emphasising of unimportant words such as conjunctions and prepositions unless they commenced a sentence. In - some cases, too, the wrong part of a word was accented. He also gave some hints as before on correct entrance, getting into reciting position, and keeping relaxed. Generally speaking, however, he said it was a very good class, and he complimented the performers on their work. , Hawera was to he congratulated on the standard of work shown. Boys’ Song (under 16). own selection.— Recalls: Spencer Anderson and Malcolm Walker. Only four faced the inds;©. The standard was even and fairly good. Reading at Sight (under 15 years).— Recalls: Nannie Forrester and Valerie Ekdahl. Highly commended: Macia Sunderland, Patricia. Ekdahl and Pearl Gain. THE EVENING SESSION. AN INTERESTING PROGRAMME. Special reference should be made to the very attractive programme to be presented this evening. It includes soprano and mezzo-soprano solos, recitations (.humorous)> violin solo (under 18). and choir contest. A feature of the evening will be the performance under the conductorship of the judge of the selected work, the anthem “Send out Thy Light,” and as there are four choirs competing the effect should be very good. It will be a distinct attraction.