COMPETITIONS TO BE HELD IN WANGANUI IN AUGUST TERM HOLIDAYS

Wanganui Chronicle, 13 December 1949, Page 4

COMPETITIONS TO BE HELD IN WANGANUI IN AUGUST TERM HOLIDAYS

Arrangements have been made by the newly-formed Wanganui Competitions Society to promote a festival in the August term holidays next year. A meeting of the committee was held last night, presided over by Mr. Eric Lind, the president. He went into the matter of obtaining suitable accommodation for the competitions, and it was found that the best plan would be to abandon the suggestion of haying them in May, and hold them in August, immediately following Hawera.

It was pointed out that a number of matters require prompt attention. First; the enrolling of members. The fee is to be 10s a year, and this will entitle the member to attend all sessions of the competitions, day and night, except demonstration concerts. It was resolved to make an appeal to the public to join on that basis. It was stressed by the vice-president, Mr. G. E. Tarrant, that a sound membership would give the society a basis to work on.

The next problem debated was the schedule. A special committee was set up as a schedule committee to meet and recommend the appointment of adjudicators and official accompanists and to draw up a schedule on the basis of recommendations made by teachers in the various sections—instrumental, vocal, elocutionary, and dancing. It was resolved that the adjudicators be selected from the panels submitted by the Federation of Competition Societies, and that the accompanists be people chosen locally. It is hoped that the necessary approach to adjudicators will be made before Christmas or very shortly afterwards.