Elocution

Date: 1946

By: Hamilton Musical Festival and Competitions Society; Waikato Times (Newspaper); Lloyd, May Carte, 1890?-1974; Franklin, Tess M, active 1940-2004

Reference: Eph-E-FESTIVAL-Hamilton-1946-01

Description: Textual schedule or list of all the choral and vocal, musical, dancing, verse-speaking and brass-band categories of the competition. The prize money for each category is listed. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of sheet, 1016 x 385 mm. Transfers: Material from the same provenance is housed at PAColl-7991; also in Manuscripts; and Drawings & Prints.

Date: 1946

Reference: Eph-D-EDUCATION-1946-01

Description: An arrangement of text. Entries closed on Saturday 16 March. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress, black on cream poster, 535 x 400 mm. Provenance: Donated by the New Zealand Educational Institute in 1998.

Date: 1926

By: Wanganui Competitions Society Incorporated

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Wanganui-1926-01

Description: Lists events and competitors in all the categories of performance, including elocution, oratory and debating, vocal, dramatic, instrumental music, fancy dancing, and national dancing. The judges were Harrison Cook (Wellington), Bernard Page (Wellington), A Stanley Warwick (Wellington), Miss Daphne Knight (Auckland), R W Haddow (Wellington), and Harold Whittle (Wellington). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 92 pages, each 213 x 140 mm.

Date: 1920-1939

By: Keeling & Mundy (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Manawatu-1920/1939

Description: Includes: Programmes for the annual festivals 1922, 1928, 1938 1932 demonstration concert, Opera House Palmerston North, 21 May 1932. Programmes list events in categories: piano solo, recitation, vocal solo, Irish jig, Highland fling, Vocal duet, violin solo, sword dance, humorous recitation, male choir, toe dancing, sailor's hornpipe, juvenile choir, character sketch, prepared speech, dance duo, and other more specific categories. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, 210 x 139 mm.

Date: 1924

By: Feilding Star (Newspaper); Feilding and District Public Schools' Amateur Athletic Association

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Feilding-1924-01

Description: Lists events and categories of performance, including instrumental music, vocal items, elocution, fancy dancing, with the pieces for recitation reproduced at the back of the book. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 211 x 138 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1986.

Date: 1935

By: Waikato Winter Show Association

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Waikato-1935-01

Description: Programme and catalogue of exhibits in the following classes: factory butter, dairy factory cheese, root vegetables, children's agricultural and horticultural section, pork and bacon carcases, vegetables, fruit, apiculture, ladies' handiworkl (knitting, needlework), bakers' bread, home-made bread and other baking, james, jellies, pickles, sweets, soap; photography, art, model engineering, Sunday School section; elocution, vocal, instrumental and dancing. There is also a list of commercial and organisation exhibitors. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 175 pages, 213 x 137 mm.

Date: 1941

By: Wellington Competitions Society

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Wellington-1941-03

Description: Timetable lists daily programmes. Accompanying material includes: Grand variety entertainment and demonstration concert. Town Hall, 3 May 1941. Ticket (3 copies) Memo for parents and guardians, July 1941 Circular letter, 29 July 1941 Two typed slips about upcoming meetings of the Society, August 1941. Opening of the Annual festival. Town Hall Wellington, 23 August 1941. Invitation / ticket Flier explaining reasons to support the Society Quantity: 1 Programme(s). 2 tickets. 5 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Booklet, fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1913

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-NZ-1913

Description: Includes: Text book, giving the rules, prizes, order of performances, and words of all the recitations in the Elocutionary section. Entries were to close on 30 September 1913. Booklet of 64 pages Programme, giving again the text of the recitations; and names of all competitor for each event. Booklet of 96 pages Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, 213 x 135 mm.

Date: 1923 - 1924

By: Invercargill Competitions Society

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Invercargill-1923/1924

Description: Includes: Invercargill Competitions Society. Musical and elocutionary competitions; thirteenth annual festival. Municipal Theatre and Victoria Hall, 13-24 August 1923. Official programme Invercargill Competitions Society. Musical and elocutionary competitions; fourteenth annual festival. Municipal Theatre and Victoria Hall, 11-22 August 1924. Official programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, hardbound, 205 mm.

Date: 1946 - 1949

By: Southland Competitions Society; White, Harold Temple, 1881-1972

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Invercargill-1940s

Description: Includes: 1946: Southland Patriotic Competitions Festival; vocal, instrumental, elocution, debates and speeches, dancing. Civic Theatre, Victoria Concert Chamber, U.F.S. Hall, 8-17 May 1946. Official programme 1949: Southland Competitions Society. Second annual festival; vocal, instrumental, debates and speeches, elocution, dancing. Civic Theatre, Victoria Concert Chamber, YMCA Hall, 5-16 May 1949. Official programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, hardbound, 212 mm.

Date: 1951-1969

By: Keeling & Mundy (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Manawatu-1951/1969

Description: Includes: Programmes for the annual festivals 1951, 1952, 1963 Also includes Demonstration concerts. Mayfair Theatre, 15 May 1954. Programme Programmes list events in categories: piano solo, recitation, vocal solo, Irish jig, Highland fling, Vocal duet, violin solo, sword dance, humorous recitation, male choir, toe dancing, sailor's hornpipe, juvenile choir, character sketch, prepared speech, dance duo, and other more specific categories. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, 210 x 139 mm.

Date: 1940-1950

By: Keeling & Mundy (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Manawatu-1940/1950

Description: Includes: Programmes for the annual festivals 1948, 1949, 1950 1947 demonstration concerts. Opera House Palmerston North, 17 May 1947. Programmes list events in categories: piano solo, recitation, vocal solo, Irish jig, Highland fling, Vocal duet, violin solo, sword dance, humorous recitation, male choir, toe dancing, sailor's hornpipe, juvenile choir, character sketch, prepared speech, dance duo, and other more specific categories. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, 210 x 139 mm.

Date: 1929

By: Gisborne Competitions Society; Gisborne herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Gisborne-1929-01

Description: Lists events and categories of performance, including dancing, instrumental music, elocution, with the pieces for recitation reproduced at the back of the book. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 73 pages, each 216 x 138 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1986.

Date: 1941

By: Wellington Competitions Society

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Wellington-1941-01

Description: Lists events in a variety programme, which was a "between seasons" fundraising feature, with performances by "the pick of competitions talent". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, each 216 x 141 mm.

Date: 1938 - 1943

Reference: Eph-C-CERTIFICATES-Barstow-1938/1943

Description: Certificates awarded to Brian Barstow by the Wellington Competitions Society, together with the handwritten judges' award sheets. Also includes certificates from the London School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, and the Trinity College of Music. Award sheets from the Napier Competition Society's Easter Festival 1940, and the New Zealand National Eisteddfod. Quantity: 44 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on certificates.. Physical Description: Letterpress and holograph on sheets and certificates, sizes varying around 300 x 250 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr R J Gibson, Waikanae, in 1998. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-6162.

Date: 1940

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to festivals in Wellington. 1937-1940]

By: Wellington Competitions Society; Hutt & Petone chronicle (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Wellington-1940-01

Description: Lists events in the final demonstration matinee and concert, with items including performances by Ngaire Keys School of Dancing, St Anthony's Convent School Choir, Peter Pan School of Dancing, Alexander Grant, Hazel Martin School of Dancing, Margaret Oates School of Dancing, St James Anglican Boys' Choir, Tommy Petherick, Beverley Gruar, Brian Brimer, Vedris Cathcart School of Dancing, Joane Raine School of Dancing, Pamela Trimmer, Dorothy Daniels' Academy of Dancing. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet, folded to 218 x 144 mm. Provenance: From the papers of Alexander Grant, 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Papers-11225-01..

Date: 1941

By: Wellington Competitions Society; Hutt & Petone chronicle (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Wellington-1941-02

Description: Lists events in the final demonstration matinee and concert, with items including performances by Joane Raine School of Dancing, Adeline Burnette Studio of Dancing, Hazel Martin School of dancing, Billie Stevens School of Dancing, Vivienne Platt School of Dancing, Margaret Oates School of Dancing, Leigh Brewer, Beverley Gruar, Joy Smith, Alexander Grant, Loretto Cunninghame, and many others. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet, folded to 222 x 144 mm. Provenance: From the papers of Alexander Grant, 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Papers-11225-01..

Date: 1933

By: Napier Competitions Society; Daily telegraph (Napier, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Napier-1933-01

Description: Lists events in categories: vocal solos, vocal duets, plays, elocution, speeches, instrumental, dancing. The judges were Miss Gladys Smith, Mr H Temple White, and Mr J F Montague. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 75 pages, each 216 x 139 mm.

Date: 1950

By: White, Harold Temple, 1881-1972

Reference: Eph-A-FESTIVAL-Greymouth-1950-01

Description: Lists events and competitors in all the categories of performance, including elocution, vocal, instrumental music, fancy dancing, and national dancing. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 48 pages, each 211 x 139 mm.

Date: 1914 - 1920

By: Wellington Competitions Society; Harry H Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-FESTIVAL-1915-01

Description: This poster lists all the competition classes - 143 in number. These included 19 instrumental music categories, 55 vocal music categories, 5 literature categories (original poems, essays, and stories), 5 oratory and debating categories, 34 elocution categories, 8 dramatic categories, 18 dancing categories. Top left asks "Please hang in prominent position". Two copies held Dated from around the years in which Harold Gregson was involved in judging competitions. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress on poster 900 x 545 mm. Provenance: Harry H Tombs collection.