CHRISTCHURCH COMPETITIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2860, 6 January 1909, Page 34

CHRISTCHURCH COMPETITIONS.

BRASS BAND EVENTS. CHRISTCHURCH, December 29. The brass band -events in the~ Chri-it-church Competitions Society's contests began to-day, the judge being Mr Short, King's Trumpeter, grade B feing taken; The first event was the B flat cornet contest. Of the 10 entries only five competitors took part. • The judge enacted Thompson (Elite Band) and Munro (Timaru Marine) to contest the final in the evening. There were only ivro competitors in the baritone section, both Elite bandsmen.. The final will be taken this evening. Three out of four entrants play-ed in the E flat bass. Rowlands and Hignian, both .belonging -to the Elite Band, will play in the final. December 30. At the Competition Society's contests last night the attendance was very poor. Sullivan (Lyttelton Marine Band) won the B flat cornets, Rowlands (Elite) the baritones, Turner (Elite) the trombones, Collins (Timaru Marine) the BB flat basses, and Childs (Lyttelton Marine) the' 6 flat basses. Out of seven bands entered, only two took part — the Lyttelton .Marine and the Elite — in the test selection. They will play another piece to-morrow evening before the final award. The competitions . continue to-day for the open class solos. In the afternoon contests for shorthand and typewriting were held. December 31. The Competition Society's contest* are not yet a financial success, the Choral Hall being poorly attended. Better things are hoped for when the contests take a. more local character. Last nisrht the con" tests were wholly brass. Wendelborn (Lyttelton Marine) won the tenor horn solo; Stubberfield (Elite), tlie euphonium; M'Gratly (Woolston), the E flat cornet j Sullivan (Lyttelton. Marine), the B flat cornet; Lanham (Woolston), the B flat trombone ; Jacobs (Lyttelton Marine), the side dram ; Lyttelton Marine Band, the trombone trio ; the Elite Band, quartet. The brass events (open class) were continued to-day. The shorthand competitions were won by C. S. Hammond and Rosina Maddern in Class A, and Eosina Maddern and Mabel Kent in Cla^s B ; Dorothy Cooper in Class C; and Clarence Lye and Ernest Hodgson in Class D.

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