BAND OF HOPE CONTESTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15715, 7 September 1911, Page 8

BAND OF HOPE CONTESTS.

♦- Tho contests in connection with the Canterbury Band of Hope Union wero continued last evening in the Choral Hall.. Mr J- M’Cullougk was in tho chair and the hall was well filled. Tho contests taken consisted of pianoforte solos (B), vocal quartettes (D), impromptu speeches and tableaux. Very attractive >items in the scarf drills were given by the juveniles. To-night the programme will consist of pianoforte duets, vocal and violin solos, recitation, action songs and a dialogue by the Selwyn Street Band of Hope. The president announced tho following as the results of the previous night’s competitions

Pianoforte solo, Class C—Dcrothv Arnold, Knox Church, 1; Peter Simpsou (Knox Church) and R. S. B. Grc.se (High Street Methodist), equal, 2; Laurio Wylie, St Andrews, 3. Recitation, E—Mrs o. B. Harris, Sydenham Methodist. 1; Miss M. Sweeney, Bastion Memorial Good, Templars, 2. Vocal duet, D (female) Misses Boardsell and Simpson, Sjdonham Methodist. 1. Violin solo, D—Miss Sarah Down, Sehvvn Street south, 1. Dumb-bell (senior sec-tion)-—Crescent Road 1. Vocal duet s > d -