Waterloo School

Hutt News, Volume 20, Issue 19, 9 October 1946, Page 11

Waterloo School

COMPETITIONS FESTIVAL MUSIC, ELOCUTION, DANCING The annual festival, held by'the Waterloo School in the Assembly Hall on Friday and Saturday, was an unqualified success. So eager were the children to participate that •it. was necessary to hold successive elimination tests, reducing each of the three sessions to about 9 5 entries, constituting a 3-hour non-stop performance. The adjudicators praised the smoothness of the organisation and also the increasingly high quality of the performances, the talent displayed comparing favourably with the larger festivals. The elocution adjudicator, Mr. Errol H. F. Muir, generously donated a scholarship entitling the most promising untrained elocution competitor to one year’s free tuition, and as a result of his impressions of the value of the festival has offered to maintain this scholarship from year to year. A pleasant feature of the final evening was the presentations made to the four judges, namely: Mr. Errol H. F. Muir (elocution), Miss Thea Smith (vocal), Miss Doreen Swaffield (dancing), and Miss Kathleen Anderson (instrumental), also to Miss M. L. Browne, a teacher of long service and affectionate regard in the Infants’ Department, who has transferred to another position. Mr. W. Nash, M.P. for Hutt, attended before the conclusion of the Festival, and spoke eulogistically of the good community spirit which existed in the Waterloo district. The Awards. Principal placings were: Elocution Scholarship.—Pam Kelly. Elocution. —Boys: 10 years, Francis Gradon, Alan Stevens, David Hunter; 7 years, Clifton Bennett, Ross Hardie, Bruce Ingram; 11 years, Robert Hunter, Trevor Crane, Brian Ealam and Colin Maxwell (3rd equal); 5-6 years, Noel' Johnston, David Dyson, Bruce Jans; 8-9 years, Rodney Loder, Ron Owles, Donald Gough; 12-13 years, Rodney Grace, Arthur Wilson, Alan Peterson. Girls: 8 years, Margaret Hunter, Lindsay Henderson, Heather Scott; 11 years, Jean Carberry, Jane Treloar, Noelene Carberry; 9 years, Caryl Khull, Beverley Scrimgeour, Marion Paxton; 7 years, Noeline Johnson, Margaret Hay, Gay Scrimgeour and Glenda Roberts; 10 years, Beverley Fox, Eileen Jones, Anne Field; 5-6 years, Kerry McLeod, Coleen Cornelius, Marion Jefferies and Velma Smith; 12-13 years, Elaine Khull, Margaret Semple, Dawn Usher and Pam Kelly, Boys’ Song.—7-8 years, Neill Stott, Mark Smith, Barry Chatfleid; 5-6 years, Murray Willis, Bayliss Hopkins, Richard O’Hara and John Barnes; 9-10 years, Ken Gamble. Francis Gradon, Ross I.lclntosh and Alan Stevens; 11 years, Graeme Pickering, Alan Davenport, Brian Stott; 12-13 years, Trevor Wood, Don McNab, Ken Swain. Girls’ Song.—7 years, Glenda Roberts, Judith Adams, Barbara Wardlaw; 9 years, Elaine Marsh, Anne Eeatherstone, Doreen Ingram; 12 years, Annette Mullins, Margaret Semple, Audrey Hurrell; 5 years, Ethne Jacobsen, Shirley Crocker, Lois Jans; 10-11 years, Fay Williams, Janice Anderson, Sylvia Peters; 6 years, Barbara Haynes, Judith Hurcombe, Judith Oliver; 8 years, Dell Dobson, Kay Semple, Judith O’Hara and ( Heather Scott; 13 years, Beverley Pickering, Andre Warden, Vicky McElwain. Dancing.—9-12 years, Anne Bryant 1, Faye Featberstone and Graeme Pickering (equal) 2, Marjorie McKnight 3; 5-8 years, Kerry McLeod, Ewan McCann, Sylvia Hartley. Instrumental. —Girls, 9-11 years, Beverley Adams, Anne Percival, Daphne Storer; boys, 9-11 yeais, Alan Stevens, Bi ace Bolland, G. Each; boys and girls, under 9 years \gaire Usher, Heatncr Ivlaconi; June Johnston; girls, 12 years, Margaret Sandiford, lae Claikson, Dawn Usher; boys, 12-13 years, Rodney Grace, Allan Bradford, Bruce Born holdt. »

Scholarship Recalls. Alan Stevens, Lindsay Henderson, Clifton Bennett, Eileen Jones and Pam Kelly, the last-named being the successful competitor.