TECHNICAL SCHOOL

Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12757, 1 April 1914, Page 3

TECHNICAL SCHOOL

ANNUAL ELOCUTIONARY COMPETITIONS, Mr De Spong, of Dunedin, who is also judging at Masterton, has been engaged to judge the Competitions this year and has forwarded the se-

lected pieces to Mr Opie, Director of the Technical School. These will be put into the printer's hands as soon as possible so that intending competitors may get the pieces to study. The ladies' classes include "The Chambered Nautilus" (by Oliver Wendell Holmes), and Portia's Description of her Suitors,, from "Merchant of Venice," while the gentlemen's classes

include "The Field of Waterloo"! (Byron), Hamlet's Advice to the Player (Hamlet). The Shakesperian dialogue is from "As You Like It," Rosalind and Orlando in the Forest of Arden." .

The elocutionary class at the Technical School has started work under the tuition of Miss Pees, who has been appointed instructress. Miss Pees comes with splendid qualifications, she having received instruction from the widely-known Professor Hasluck, Regent Street, London; she also was principal of the. Lyric School of Elocution, Wellington, and proved herself a competent teacher. All the factors and adjuncts of elocution are taught, and individual atten- • tion given to every student. There- ! fore all intending competitors who , are not at present receiving any in- j struction should make it their business to join the Technical School class.