DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

PROFESSIONAL MUSIC TEACHERS

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

PALMERSTON N.. Jan. 21. The annual conference of the Society of Professional Teachers of Music opened here, Mr Robert Parker, C.M.G., presiding. Following a welcome by the Mayor to the delegates the President briefly reviewed the activities staling not a great deal had been accomplished since the conference was held in. May. The work of the Registration Board was beginning to assume large proportions. There were five hundred applications already and for the first few months that was very good indeed. It was going to moan a great deal of status for professionals in future years PALMERSTON X., Jan. 21.

The Music Teachers’ Conference discussed he qucsion of persons holding Government positions taking pupils for music when teachers of same were available. -The Society is to communicate with the Education Department, pointing out cases where injustice is suffered. “T think it is an awful mouthful,” said a delegate when discussing the remit. The Conference will endeavour to find a shorter and more suitable .title for the organisation. The matter was deferred after discussion, for expression and .opinion, of branches. CAR ACCIDENT. HASTINGS, Jan. 21. A ear ran over a bank at Te Aute Hill this morning about 7 o’clock, ami dropped more than 100 ft. Mrs Gren-villo-Warren, of Pukehou, her brother, Mr Wright, and two friends, Mesdames Read and Campbell, both of Sydney, the occupants of the car, were removed to Royston Hospital, Hastings.

AUCKLAND DOWNPOUR. AUCKLAND, Jan. 21

It is estimated half an inch of rain fell in the city in half an hour, early this morning.

Low-lying areas were flooded and for about two hours the citystreets resembled rivers. At the corner of Fort Street and Queen St. water was knee deep. At;the comer of Queen St, and Custom’s St. motor cars were stopped by the water reaching the engines. The premises of quite a number of city business firms were flooded.’

, The down pour was steady from 6.30 a.in’, to 11.30 a.m.

AN APPRECIATION. DUNEDIN, Jau. 21

The members of the Fuller’s Eng-lish-American Comedy C'oy., passengers by the lost Manuka, have had a silver medallion struck to send to Capt. Ross-Clark. The inscription reads: “To Captain Ross-Clark, in deep appreciation of his coolness and courage ; and also that of his officers and men under him on the s.s. Manuka on Dec. 16th. 1920.” •