GORE COMPETITIONS

Southland Times, Issue 20771, 11 May 1929, Page 4

GORE COMPETITIONS

ANNUAL FESTIVAL. Arrangements in connection with the Gore Competitions Society's annual festival, which commences on Monday, are now well advanced and in some respects at least the society can be assured that the 1928 festival will be a success. The society has been very loyally supported from competitors in all parts of Southland and elsewhere, and the fact that very many of those who competed last year have entered again is a tribute to the capable manner in which the last festival was conducted and also to the courtesy and consideration extended to visiting competitors. Whether the festival will be a success financially depends upon the support which the society receives from the local public, and it is to be hoped that they will rally round by attending the competitions as often as possible. The society has given the public every encouragement to support it, and the programmes arranged for the evening sessions throughout the week promise to be unusually interesting. As in former years the recalls from the afternoon sessions will be taken in the evenings, in addition to which the competitors in several of the more important sections will be- heard on various evenings during the festival. These include spectacular dances, half-hour entertainments impromptu speeches, musical monlogues and several other entertaining items.