NATIONAL DANCING AND COMPETITIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18673, 30 September 1922, Page 8

NATIONAL DANCING AND COMPETITIONS.

TO THE EDITOR ' Sir, —I do riot think that • “Onlooker” has been what one; would term a really interested onlooker at the national dancing sections recently held in Burns Hall, in connection with the Dunedin amateur competition. I think "Onlooker'’ has cast a very nasty slur on the appointed judge for the dancing sections at Gere. Ho mentions a spirit of fairplay,, but if ho can send along a judge who •will give the competitors .(both beginners and advanced) a : fairer and aqnaror deal than the judge appointed by the Gore Society will give, then I say he should send, him along with his qualifications. “Onlooker" .seems to decin it unwise to have a high-grade teacher acting as judge. I think it is an excellent idea to appoint a practical-judge, as lately we have hack a jud"©‘who is guided by theory, and that is hardly fair to the beginners. A practical knows what to expect from beginners as well as what to expect from advanced pupils. It stands to reason that a person who judges on theory docs not, and cannot, „iv e the competitors the name fair play. The judge appointed for .Gore, allow me to remark, has during the last ten days given all the children competing at Burns Hall, a very fair deal, as he. has piped for the majority of.them. .Outside pupils for whom he has piped received the same attention as his own pupils, even to his asking w-bat time they preferred. I do not think competitors could, get a fairer deal, and I am quite sure that Mr ‘Clark will prove himself a very just and capable judge, . and that whoever wins will win on their merits. _ . . I would like to remark that I give the committee at Gore credit for included, a novice section in th ® 1 am, etc., 67 Harbour terrace. PROHIBITION LAW. TO THE EDITOB. fS, R Ymn correspondent “Indignant Pro-. hibitionjsl” seems to be troubled about the possibility-of his favourite wme-making being interfered with in the event of prohibition being carried. It would bo a precious nice state of affairs if, after the democracy of New Zealand had vetoed the liquor traffic, every drinker who had the mind to do so could turn his dwelling into n “miniature brewery.” No democratic Government .would so stultify itself as to prohibit anyone from making home-madn non-intoxicating wine. To make “it' of an “intoxicating” nature, however, is a very different matter.—l am, etc., September 29. M.