THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Dame Melba’s Advice. Except in very exceptional cases, girls should not study singing until they are 17. But any girl who, at 15 or 16, shows promise of a good voice, should work very hard at piano, theory, and languages. A girl who has had good musical training while at school will make more rapid progress than one who has to begin everything at once. To be able to play the piano and to read well at sight are necessary for nnyon? who hopes to be regarded as an artist.
Great stock-taking sale at McGruer’s, three weeks only, commencing Friday, May sth. This sale comes at a very opportune time, right at tlie'beginning of the winter season. All new goods come down to end of season bedrock prices. But. you will have to act quickly; look out for big bargain price list circulating through this newspaper.—McGruer and Co., Hokitika and Greymouth.— Advt.
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; lienee our remarkable sucabolishing Washboard Slavery with “NO-RUBBING” Laundry Help.—F. Foster, Agents for "NORUBBING.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1922, Page 2
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179THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1922, Page 2
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