WELLINGTON COMPETITIONS
RECORD ENTRIES NELSONIAN’S SUCCESSES IBy Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Complete success is assured for the Wellington Competitions Society’s sixteenth annual festival, which began a two weeks’ season in the Town Hall on Saturday, if the unrivalled number of entries and the great public interest that is already being taken in the contests are any indication. In the Shakespearean recitation for gentlemen, Robert Cheyne Eastbourne) was first and F. W. Huggins (Nelson) was second. Reading at sight (gentlemen)—F. W. Huggins (Nelson), 1; A. P. Dorrian (Rongotai) 2. The winner put up a good performance, said the judge, but even be, in common with most others, lacked a little in expression of light and shade.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 August 1933, Page 4
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