COMPETITIONS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12455, 25 May 1926, Page 8

COMPETITIONS

MUSIC AND ELOCUTION MASTERTON RESULTS. (By Telegraph.—Special to “Time*/*) MASTERTON, May 24. The ninth annual music and elocutionary competitions under the auspices of the Masterton Competition* Society commenced in the Opera House to-day. The entries received for this year’s festival are large and most representative. The function was officially opened this evening by the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan. Following are the results: Piano solo (Jo and under 10 years): Recalls, Alyson, Webb (Martinborough), and Eva Bull (Martinborough). Irish song, ladies: Recalls, Mis* Rita Masson (Carterton), “Barney O’Shea”; Miss Ethel Cooke (Napier), “Killarney”; and Mrs A. E. Bayliss (Kopua, Hawke’s Bay), “Last Rose of Summer.” Musical raonolokue. ladies; Recalls, Miss Mary Hart (Masterton). “My Coward”; Alisa Zena Jupp (Wellington). “Out at Mens”: and Miss Ella Edwards (Masterton). “The Little Crossing Sweeper.’ Reading at sight (children under 16): Final, Jean Drew (Masterton), 1; Evelyn Adams (Wellington;, 2; Mavis Wmdser (Wellington), 3. dong (girls under 12 years): Final, Joan Harris (Wellington), “Ihe Lilac Tree,” I; Jean Stewart (Wellington), “If No One Ever Marries Me,” 2. Violin solo (over 18 years;: Final, Lionel Warner (Upper Hutt), 2. (Only one entry) Tenor solo: Final, E. W. Robbins (Wellington), 1; H. J. Jones (Master ton), 2. Irish song: Miss Ethel Cooke 1, Rita Masson 2. Musical monologue, ladies: Alls* Alary Hart 1, Miss Zena Jupp 2. Mezzo soprano solo: Aliss E. Ralph 1, Aliss E. Gooding 2. Character sketch (boy or girl): Miss Evelyn Adams 1, Alaster L. Searle 2. Song (boy or girl): Aliss Doreen Saunders 1, Aliss Queenie AlcLeau 2. Ladies’ humorous recitation: Mr» G. Elliott 1, Misses AI. Hart and J. Woolf (equal) 2. Character recital: Aliss AI. Aitehison 1, Afaster L. Searle 2. Song in costume (boy or girl 12 years and under 16): Aliss Doreen Saunders 1, Aliss Queenie AlcLean 2. Bass solo: Wm. Iggulden 2.