AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1930, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

CARILLON GRADUATE. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) . SYDNEY, December 18. Miss Gladys Watkins of Wellington, New Zealand, the only woman British National to become a graduate of the famous Carillon School of Malines, arrived at Sydney from Europe by the Otranto and will give recitals on Sydney University War Memorial : Carillon on Sunday afternoon and Monday evening next. SYDNEY, December f|B. Mis s Watkins described 5 Josef Denyn, her tutor, as a remarkable man who although more than sixty years of age, was wonderfully alert and full of youthful vigour. He had been playing more than forty years, climbing '409 steps leading to his belfry in the great square tower of Strombold’s Cathedral School of which he is director. The School is subsidised by the Belgian Government. Miss Watkins is now regarded as a distinguished Garilloneur. She worked so zealously under Denyn .that she established a record in gaining- her diploma in fourteen months. During special week day recitals by students, she was privileged to give one full programme on the occasion of the visit of the French General. HALF A MILLION.

FOR ’XMAS CHEER. CANBERRA, December 18. Mr Fenton announced that the Government were allocating half a million sterling for unemployed ’Xmas cheer, not fifty thousand as cabled yesterday. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. SYDNEY. December 17. At the wool sales. 10,315 bales were offered, of which 9170 were sold and 537 were disposed of privately. The market recorded its finnness for all finer types of merino. The chief support came from Japan, France, Germany, and Yorkshire. Greasy merino made 26J pence.