THE COMPETITIONS.
Last year’s festival was so successful that the Invercargill Competitions Society is entitled to look forward to even better results this year. This means of encouraging young people to become acquainted with the national treasures of literature and music has been endorsed all over the world, and in addition to this aim we have also the service done in promoting the art of speaking. An inarticulate people are ever in danger through not being able to express themselves. In focussing attention on this aspect of life’s problems, the Competitions Society is doing a valuable work, and it is pleasing to be able to recall the fact that it is extending its usefulness by giving the public opportunities of hearing men trained in oratory and in elocution. One result of the visit of Professor Newlands to Invercargill has been a revival of interest in Shakespeare, due, we may properly say, to the Society’s energies. These things show that the Competitions Society is a live body deserving support, and it is to be hoped that the entries, which close on Friday, will reveal in their numbers among the young people an appreciation of this fact.
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Southland Times, Issue 19292, 10 July 1924, Page 4
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195THE COMPETITIONS. Southland Times, Issue 19292, 10 July 1924, Page 4
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