THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
flg— —: ——. The Yat.ue and Virtue or Singing. “AVe dag behind both England and Wales where singing among children is concerned, hut the Education Department is going to revolutionise music in the schools,” declared Sir .James Parr, Minister of Education, in his address at the opening of the new Epsom school building. Singing, which created a community spirit as nothing else could, was not receiving it.s proper place in the school curriculum. he maintained. Too little time was devoted to it, and what was done was done in too haphazard a fashion. The Department was going to remove that reproach, and with the arrival from England in the next month or so of Air E. X. Taylor, who had been selected liy Sir AA’alter Davies, the eminent composer, and authority on national music, to supervise vocal music in the Xew Zealand schools, the whole subject would he reorganised. The Afinister hoped that Xew Zealand schools would eventually be able to show some of the finest singing in the schools of the British Empire.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1926, Page 2
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176THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1926, Page 2
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