PRIZES AWARDED
CENTENNIAL LITERARY COMPETITION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The results of the Centennial Competition conducted, on behalf of the Government, by the National Historical Committee, were announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Parry) today. There was a total of 778 entries. Results; — Essay. M. Holcroft, Invercargill, 1. G. N. Morris. Auckland, and Miss D. Loughnan, Sydney, equal, 2. Long Poem. The Rev J. R. Hervey, Christchurch, 1. Di- D. Raymond. Waipukurau. 2. Short Poem. Miss Helena Henderson. Christchurch, and the Rev J. R. Hervey, ( equal. 1. Play. No first prize was awarded. Miss Janet McLeod. Christchurch, was placed second and Miss Audrey Loathes. Auckland, third. Novel. Mr F. 11. Harris, Lakemba, New South Wales. I. The second prize was not awarded. Mrs E. N. Grentorex. Now South Wales. 3. Mrs A. McCarthy, Kohaka, Hawke’s Bay, also gets a third prize. Short Story. Miss E. Midgley, Auckland, and Frank Sargeson, Auckland, equal, I. R. Finlayson, Auckland, 3. "1 am sure something of value to New Zealand literature has been achieved by holding the competition.’’ said iVlr Parry.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400220.2.64
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1940, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
181PRIZES AWARDED Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1940, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in