An Comunn Gàidhealach Publications > Deo-gréine > Volume 17, October 1921 to September 1922

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AN DEO-GREINE.
SECRETARY’S PAGE.
Tha a’ chuidheall air car eile chur dhith
agus ann an nine gle ghoirid bidh sinn aig
M6d Lochabar. M6d m6r gu dearbh a bhios
ann agus a mhaireas ceithir laithean. Bidh
aon charaid ’gar dith agus bidh ionndrain
air. Bi mo chuimhne fhein bha Mgr.
Mac-a-Phl, nach maireann, aig a h-uile Mod
o chionn coig bliadhna deug, agus tha mi a’
creidsinn gun teid cuimhne m6ran eile na’s
fhaide air ais. Bidh sinn ’ga chuimhn-
eachain-is ’ga ionndrain. B’e fhein an duine
c6ir.
A meeting of the Mod and Music Com¬
mittee was held recently and arrangements
for carrying through the Mod were made.
The Junior Oral, Solo, and Choral events
will take place on Tuesday, 26th September,
with the usual Junior Concert in the Town
Hall in the evening, at which Major
MacLean of Ardgour will preside. The
Junior entries are up to the average,
although they have not yet attained to the
standard of pre-war Mods. The total Junior
entries is 253, being 17 more than Oban and
17 less than Glasgow. The falling off is in
the Solo and Choral events, and the Com¬
mittee agreed to accept entries for these
until the Mod Programme was ready for
printing. Meantime the entries are: —
Literary, 109; Oral, 86; Solo and Duet, 50;
Choral, 8—253.
The entries in the Senior Section are very
gratifying, the total being 394—49 more than
Oban" and 123 less than Glasgow. The
Literary entries are the same as at Glasgow
—49. The outstanding feature this year is
the large number of competitors entered for
the Long Story prize, 12 papers having been
received for this competition. That there is
no lack of bards is evident from the fact that
14 Poems have been received. The entries
are as follows : —Literary, 49; Oral, 41; Solo
and Duet, 255; Choral, 23; Instrumental,
23; Music (written), 4—giving a grand total
to date of 648.
Special Solo competitions 60 to 68, Puirt
A beul and Folk Songs will be taken on
Wednesday, commencing simultaneously in
the Town Hall and Masonic Hall at 10
o’clock. The official opening will take place
between the hours of 2 and 3 on Wednesday,
and a Ceilidh is being arranged for the same
evening. On Thursday morning competi¬
tions will commence in three halls at 10
o’clock, the Oral competitions taking place
in the Reading Room beside the Town Hall.
The Gold Medal competitions will begin at
2 o’clock in the Town Hall, and no other
Solo competition will be taken that after¬
noon. It is hoped that a performance of
“Mairead, ” last year’s first prize drama,
will be given in the evening.
The proceedings on Friday are arranged as
formerly, the Former Medallists and First
Prize Winners’ Solo competitions commenc¬
ing at 9.30. The competition for the Lovat
and Tullibardine Shield is timed to begin at
2 o’clock. This should give choir members
sufficient interval to prepare for the first
concert in the Highland Hotel Hall at 6.30.
The Instrumental competitions will be held
in the Masonic Hall, beginning with the
Pianoforte competition at 11 o’clock.
The attention of competitors in the Medal
and Grain Mhora competitions is directed to
the rules in the syllabus governing these
competitions, and to the special note in the
Mod programme. They are asked to appear
at the Town Hall on Thursday morning at
9.30 for examination as to their knowledge
of Gaelic. The examiners will give each
successful candidate a signed voucher, and
this must be handed to the Chairman of the
proceedings when the competitor is called
upon to sing. It will be helpful if all com¬
petitors in the Grain Mhora competition will
come forward early for examination, as this
competition takes place in the forenoon.
The first concert of the season in aid of
the Highlanders’ Institute will be given by
the Committee of the Inner Isles Stall in the
Christian Institute on the evening of Friday,
15th September. I learn that all prepara¬
tions for this function are completed, and a
perusal of the programme confirms my
anticipation of its success. Chief Constable
A. D. Smith is chairman; Mr. Eyre-Todd,
J.P., acting secretary of the Institute has
kindly consented to address remarks on
“The Highlanders’ Institute: Its Purposes
and Prospects.’’ With such artistes as
Misses Margaret Aitken, Margaret B. Mac-
pherson, Annie MacMillan, Bessie
Campbell, Messrs. Calum Stewart, David
Brown, Robert Murray (the entertainer), the
Caledonian Strathspey and Reel Society, the
success of the concert is assured. The
accompanist is Miss Margaret Hill-Boyle;
The inclusive charges at the following
hotels in Fort William for the Mod are: —
Full fare, 17s 6d to 18s 6d per day. High
tea, bed and breakfast, 14s fid to 15s each
person. Alexandra Hotel, Banavie Hotel,
Highland Hotel, Palace Hotel, Station
Hotel, and West End Hotel. High tea, bed
and breakfast, and lunch, at Imperial Hotel,
13s 6d per day. Same at Central Hotel,
12s 6d per day. Null.