“New Zealand wants to look up artistically—and in this I mean the ordinary people like ourselves,” said Dr. T. Vernon Griffiths, of Dunedin, judge of vocal and instrumental sections at the Ashburton Competitions Society’s festival, when giving his decisions at the end of a session. Dr. Griffiths deprecated the inferiority complex which he said existed in the Dominion. “We in New Zealand still think our grown-ups and our girls and boys cannot take their place in the world of art. This is an inferiority complex.” He said that a higher standard of performance than that at the Ashburton festival would not be found in a town of the same size in England.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1939, Page 7
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