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The "Comps"
With a total of 2,260 entries, 200 up on last year, competitions week was a busy one for all concerned.
The championship and scholarship winners; Miss Judith Steele (Hastings), ladies vocal; Mr Edward Page (Hamilton), gentlemen's vocal; Miss Louise Longley (Napier) intermediate vocal championship.
Speech competitor Cynthia Nunns arrives at Parish Hall for item, complete with props.
Dressing room sequence.
Normally Norman Lee is a rather nice chap - not so nice here in the role of that sadistic Dickensian bird Fagin.
Executive committee pictured with cups and trophies just before presentation ceremony.
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Joy Steele (Hastings), junior vocal championship.
Margaret Neal (Napier), senior piano championship.
Janice Neal (Napier), junior piano championship.
Robin Stevens (Wanganui), senior speech championship.
Diane Pickett (Wairoa), intermediate speech championship.
John Patrick (Carterton), junior speech championship.
Margaret Whitehead, junior speech championship.
Mary McDonald (Palmerston North), open national dancing championship.
Patricia Marshall (Whakatane), national dancing championship, 12 and under 15.
Margaret Kinnaird (Whakatane), national dancing championship, Irish Jig under 12.
Nola Ansell (Napier), vocal scholarship between 18 and 24.
Barbara Perston, ladies vocal scholarship.
Malcolm Geard, piano scholarship under 16.
Judy Dearness, speech scholarship under 16.
Gaylyn Francis (Auckland), dancing scholarship under 15 years.
Suzanne Oliver (Napier) national dancing scholarship under 15.