BAND OF HOPE COMPETITION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 234, 30 October 1903, Page 2

BAND OF HOPE COMPETITION.

Tuk first competition in contention wii,h tho United Binds <jf Hope w .t. helil l:ist evening in tho Whitolay Hail, and ri.spito tiiu woe night- was w«il pi." < endfc'l. E.MJ-ies vvern jecfi'ved from >Si;, j'..: .£'}'';(, i'l'iruiliv+i Mt)l hi-dini;, Whiteley, Oirriugcoii-ioad, and Stratford JUuds of Hope, and tho items >'.'t,ro id'. tsxcwLdingly wall rendered, the , i''iterest being wed maintained otr„ Tim fallowing progr.ininie w,.s ' rendered ; Pianoforte solo," L'A' \Uw," Miss Armi.-. V.-wr ;;-. Jane," Mi.-; Q . ;...io ;■' j j.jrts; violin .'di>, "Sping Tiino," Manter Eric M.ibm Eileen McG:hey ; *o.:<», " Fithiv, U r-n- F.itlior," Miss Id ■>. I.Jian.>hot.~; •■(.-citation, * f The Gkjih:;.' 0 .ose," M ••- Winnio Tichbon ; ■' Jji 11 ■rim," Mfistt'r Warroo Oliver; r>i'.n' •»010, Miss Mary Dowlii.i»; itricuf''on, •' the L'ldder," M istor Km) ■.ihorn iy ; ™>>g, " Tho Oott'.g« by the Ssi," Miss L lian M. Huibbrt; r-.oita-iioo, " J:in Master's Ribbon," Jessie il. Wiiliio; piano twin, Mss JS'tshifi ■ lildt; recitation, "Fearless Frank," Master Robt. 0. Sexton ; nong, " B.tck to Erin," Miss Djrothy M. Whitcorabe ; recitation, " The Road to Heaven," Mr Ernest Harrison; violin *)lo, "Home Sweet Hjm«," M-istvr 4enry Suit; reciturion, "whnstm j. D.iy in tho Workhous-i," Mins KitSlioonoy; nong, " A Doily and a Ooach," Miss Winnio Nixon ; reading, "On His M«]9ijf.y'a Pa--spor..," Mis'.oc Ken Shomey; piano solo, Miss Pearl WiSkie; song, " The Children or the Drink," Miss Mary Prizes were awarded as follows: Vocil solo, under 12, Lilian Hulbert, Whitoh-y Bmd of Hope, Ist. Under 16, Dcrothy Whitcombo, Ss. Mary's, Ist. Over 16, Winnie Nixon, Primitive Me'ihoc'is', Isi. Piano solo, under 12, Anni* Turner, St. Mary's, Ist. Over 16, NTo'ilio Heldt, Whiteley, Ist. Violin i solo, under 12, Eric Ward, P.'imi ivu Methodist, Ist. Under 16, Henry SiK Whiteley, Ist. Recitations, 9, Eileen McGahey, Whitolov, let. Under 12, Kenneth Shorney, Whiteley, ls*>. Under 16, Jessie Wilkie, Oirringtonroad, Ist; Robert Sexton, Stratford, very highly commended. Over 16, Kate Sborney, Whiteley, Ist. The gentlemen who acted as judges . were: Musical, Dr. Walker, Messrs G. H. Whita and E. H. Tribe ; literary, Rev, W. R. Woolley, Messrs N. K. Mac Diarmid, and H, Dempsey, Tha secretary, Mr Hulbert, proposed a hevrfy vote of fchaok* to tha ]udg;s, and Mr J. R. Roberts seconded, and it w.<s carried, ns aU considered their judging was most impartial. Tho chair wa« oiicupiei by the Rev. J. N. Buttle, who commended the woi k of tho sicrotary in miking the compHrun fiuah a marked success The proceadings closed with the National Anthem. LOOK out for ttu BLIOK FAMILY. '