THE NEW ZEALAND COMPETITIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1264, 20 October 1911, Page 2

THE NEW ZEALAND COMPETITIONS.

A BIG INFLUX. Between Monday and Wednesday next (hero promises to bo a big influx of people into Wellington, in connection with the Now Zealand vocal and elocutionary contests, which aro to begin at tho Town Hail on Wednesday next. Tho entries approximate 1900, and of llicao nearly IOUO are Irom outside Wellington altogether. Not only aro they coming from all parts of New Zealand, from Auckland to luveroargill, but, they arc also coming . from Sydney, Melbourne, and Tasmania, ' Not only does it mean the influx of 1000 competitors, but many of them will bo accompanied by friends and relatives. The secretary (Mr. J. Dykes) has arranged accommodation for the visitors, and the arrangements for tho competitions are said to be in apple-pie order. It is likely enough that the couple of thousand people who take pa.rt in Wellington this first year will probably have : taken greater pains with their work and ' practice, put more thought and more conscious effort into it, limn they would i liavo dono hail they not taken part. The I test pieces selected in all classes for this [ festival aro of high repute, and assured 5 artistic merit—things calculated to im- - provo the taste of the average, competitor s in tho matter of his own selections. The r act of striving to excel, under such stimu- •' lating circumstances, is in itself a good n and highly beneficial thing, and the r meeting of all these people, in the capie tal city of the Dominion, must surely do y good.