NEW ZEALAND TALENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 87

NEW ZEALAND TALENT.

(FIOU OUS, OWH COKBXSPOTOEHT.J WELLINGTON, November 26< Miss Deamer, who has won the £25 prizC offered by the Lone Hand Magazine pro* prietora (Sydney) for the best ehort storj by an Australasian writer, besides £5 foi( copywright privileges, is * Featherston girl of 17 summers. She is the daughter of DiJ Deamer, and her maternal grandfather wt< Colonel Reader, well-known to Wellingtonians. She loves the simple life and th« open air, and is studious withal, knowing her Shakespeare from cover to cover, and, like a good many girls of 16, her " fancy; 'lightly turns " to the stage from the mera literary instinct. She has written both its prose and verse- from love of the exercises and not for. publication, though her verses have been highly appreciated by some who have seen them in manuscript. The Post comments on the fact that the news was intimated in a seven-line paragraph, and adds : " Had this Australasian ' championship ' been one of muscle instead of brain ■ column would have been inadequate # to' satisfy the demand for details concerning the winner."

Mr C. S. Owen, head master of th« East Christchurch School.x states that ho receives on an average 2(K applications a week for boys for offices and other employment, but, owing to the scarcity of lad* willing to fill the positions, he is unabl« to comply with the requests.