MUSICAL COMPETITIONS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 28 October 1911, Page 2

MUSICAL COMPETITIONS

THURSDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. ! By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, October 20. ' The annual festival of the New Zea-} land Competitions Society was continued to-day and this evening, and was well attended by the public. The winners up to the present ure as follows: Dramatic recital for men—Samuel H. Osborne (Dunedin) 1, E. V. Slyfield (Dunedin) 2, James C. Bell (Lower Hutt) 3. Humorous recital (ladies) —Miss Lilian Pritchard (Melbourne) 1, Miss C. Helen Gardiner (Dunedin) 2, Mrs. Arthur Griffiths 2. Soprano solo —Miss R. Lyons (Auckland) 1, Misses G. D. Barker and M. Grant (Christchurch), equal, 2, Miss Flora Sutherland (Fordell) honorable mention. Humorous song (ladies or gentlemen) —Mr. F. Blandford (Wellington) 1, Miss G. Helen Gardiner (Dunedin) 2, Miss Florence J. Pacey (Dunedin). 3 Piano solo —Miss Violet Edith Hemery (Dunedin) 1, Miss May Evatt (Island Bay) 2, Miss Mollie Shannon (Newtown) 3. Mandolin solo—Miss Myrtle Twose (Christchurch) 1, Leslie C. W. H. Adams (Wanganui) 2, Miss B. H. Fitzgerald and A. H. Duncan (both of Wellington), equal, 3. Recitation (girls under 11) —Zita 11. Chapman (Lower Hutt) 1, Hazel F. Jeffrey (Island Bay) 2, Misses Cyntlia Eggers (Newtown) and Stella Cairns (Masterton), equal, 3. Baritone solo—O. E. Farrow (Auckland) 1, R. E. Orr (Lower Hutt) 2, T. M. Charters (Christchurch) 3. Sacred soprano—Miss Daisy Grant (Christchurch) 1, Miss F. Sutherland (Wanganui) 2, Miss G. D. Barker (Christchurch) 3. Violin solo—Miss Maud Remington (Levin) 1, Vincent Lewis (Wellington) o

There were only three entries for the Shakesperian recital for ladies, Miss Lilian Prichard (Melbourne) being first, Miss Thelma Browne (Launceston, Tasmania) second, and Miss Florence J. Pacey (Dunedin) 3.