WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1919, Page 3

WAITARA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Waitara, Feb. 24. Miss Stanford, principal of St. Mary's High School, Stratford, was the judge of an interesting musical competition on Saturday. She Lad to docide in four grades, the best playing of a selected piece of music, the candidate to have learnt the piece without aid either from teacher or friends. There were 23 entries and the results were as follows:—firade 1 Irene Sarten, 2 Florence Jonas, 3 Emily Aekland, 1 Kuetia Andrews and Amy Hall (equa!i. Miss Stanford's report stated that ..!■ though all grades were good. thought that "roup three showed the best all round work, five of the candidates gaining over SO per cent of the marks. Afterwards, in the Clifton Hall, the pifees were distributed as above, at a concert given by the pupils of Mrs and M'ss Marlow and Miss Atkinson, and prizes were also awarded' as follows to the candidates at the last Associated Board examination, nlitnininjf the highest mark l ;: (Primary) Wallace Bird, (elementary) Zeena Huse. (lower) Phyllis Tate. ' The programme was as follows: Trio, Mendelssohn's Wedding AT,arch, Misses Ackland, Andrews and Jeffrey; (solo) I. Sarten, duet "On Winss of Song'' (Sarton's) L. and K, Faull; (solo) "Prelude" (Chopin). Miss fondon; violin solo. "Devotion." M. Wells: solo, "Tftimoreske" (Dvorak), X 'Nidkson: duet. '''Hide and Seek," AT. Allemainc mid N Lov;>',-idge: solo, "Serenade" (Chaminade), Miss A. Hall; duet, "Boat Song." W. -Tolland and W. Bird: solo. Sonata in C Minor (Beet hoven). Mi's Atkinson; trio, "Soldiers Chorus" (Wagner). Missr-s Tate. Oliver and Marlow; duet. Schubert's "Unfinished Sjmphony" Mrs and Miss Mnrlow: song. " ICnow Not Why." Miss Atkinson: son!?. Sonata in T> (Beethoven), Aliss Marlow: duet, "Cradle Song" (Sarton's), Z. Tfu«e and B. Wickham; <olo, "Yuder Thrie Worte" (Mendelssohn). Miss Fairfax Cholnuby; solo, "Cohh:n Pavs," At is- F- soio "The Hunt," (Curlett). L. MeKenzie; srlo, waltz (durlett). L. Pa for: solo, "Chant du Soir" (ITellier), Z. Huso.