COMPETITIONS SOCIETY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 December 1927, Page 5

COMPETITIONS SOCIETY

THE 1928 FESTIVAL. AND BOOK OF WORDS. The Syllabus and Book of Words for the 1928 festival of the Masterton 'Comr)etit.ioe<Soeictv. is non' published .and copies' are procurable at .>*’ stationers and music shops, or by application to the secretary, Mr E. Bell, 10 -Church Street, Masterton. The dates fixed, May'l4 to 19 (in■clusiTe) coincide with the school term holidays. The opening session will be•gin at 9.30 a.m. on Monday, May 141 :and at 0 a.m. on each succeeding day. Mr H. Temple White, of Wellington, as judge of the vocal and instrumental music, Mr J. F. Montague, Auckland, is elocutionary judge, and Miss Con■sance MacDonald, of Napier, will again officiate in the fancy dancing section. The national dancing judge has vet to be appointed.' The syllabus is practically the same ■as that of last year, the executive having found it to be most satisfactory to all concerned. With the book are . published some practical hints to competitors and others, as there is a growing tendency to be careless with the King’s English. The principal object of Die Competitions Society is to encourage and estivate a taste for good music, literati; and art.