SCOTTISH PARADES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18877, 1 June 1923, Page 8

SCOTTISH PARADES

Air John Ogg has agreed to head the parades of some 170 pipers and dancers which are being held next Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons along Dunedin main streets, in connection with the annual competitions of the Piping and Dancing Association. This reappearance of the veteran John Ogg at the head of the ’'Scottish Brigade” will remind local residents of the older school of the notable processions to the sports grounds at New Year time, in the palmy days of the Otago Coledoniah Society 20 years ago. As a doggerel of the day had it:— “ Whaur ye gatin’ New Year’s Day, Bonnie laddie, .Highland laddie? To see John Ogg and Piper Gray, At the Dale. At the Calc.”

The piping and dancing competitions this year promise to boat all records, a total of 652 entries having been received from practically all, parts of the dominion. Notable contestants among the pipers are Pipe major Alacdonald (Wanganui), the present pibroch champion of New Zealand; Albert MTntyro (Christchurch), Archd. and Angus M'Alillan (Dunedin), .John A. Cameron (Southland), and Duncan Stuart (Invercargill), junior pibroch champion of Otago. All the best dancers have entered also, among them being Jean and Thelma IVTKonzic (Wellington). Muriel Waugh (Christchurch), Alay Thorn (Southland), Beulah King and Thelma Gillespie (Dunedin). Jean At‘Lachlan and Olga Seaman, and dozens of others of equal calibre. The meeting will be a gathering of champions. The competitions this year are being held in His Alajesty’s Theatre, and will continue in the day time from Alonday morning till Friday afternoon.