C.C.F. Notes

of view and the spirit which it obviously created. A wide range of songs made the event avoid the repetitive nature of last year's event. The instrumental competition was equally varied and of good overall standard, though it lacks the feeling of a full House competition as it is restricted to the specialists. The Cape Cup was won by School House and the Baird Cup by Temple.

MUSIC PRIZES

The competition was held this year in Chapel, which enabled the organists to compete and also let all performers benefit from the acoustic which is so much more sympathetic than the Hall. A very good entry and fine playing made the entertainment worthwhile, but the problem of allowing the judges time to deliberate is difficult for the audience. The panel of judges was more confused with the mathematics of adding up and scaling down than with the actual verdict. Next time we must simplify this or have a computer on the panel. The Keyboard Prize was won by David Mountain with noteworthy performances also by Tony Robinson and Peter Nash. The Orchestral Prize was won by Peter Rivers with an almost faultless performance of the Poulenc Flute Sonata. K.R.P.

With a year free from an inspection, training was within the Service Sections rather than on a Contingent basis, but it is from the Contingent as a whole that we shall miss two personalities.

In this edition of The Peterite there is a special appreciation of the late Major General J. C. Latter, who was a Governor of the School. In recent years he was not able to get about easily, and thus few members of the CCF would know of the General's great personal interest in its affairs. He was frequently asking the Commanding Officer about the Contingent and about trends in the CCF generally; for he was a Vice President of the CCF Association and had had a large part in shaping CCF policy. Among the hierarchy of very senior Officers guiding the CCF General Latter was very much our friend at court.

If the late General Latter was our friend at court, we might say of Flying Officer A. J. Riley, who has left the School, that he was our man at Church Fenton. Cadets of all three Service Sections had reason to be grateful to Flying Officer Riley for his easy arrangement of flying in the Air Experience scheme; for he was one of the pilots in No. 9 Air Experience Flight at RAF Church Fenton. We shall miss this important connection; but we shall miss, too, Flying Officer Riley's own high standard as a CCF officer and his background of Royal Air Force experience.

In summarising the year's training, we should note that it has been more difficult this year for the Army to give the range of help that we. have sometimes had. But it needs little imagination to realise that the pressure on the Regular Army has been so great that Cadet Forces could not expect to receive any priority, and it would be appropriate here for those 19