NOT NEW ZEALANDER
(Press Assn.-
status of composer the subject of dissension BORN IN FRANCE
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Dunedin, Tuesday. Regarding the Wellington Competitions judge declining to accept Char- e!. les Willeby as a New Zealand com- . | poser, the facts ascertained here are ? that Mrs. Willeby hrought Charles to ; %: Dunedin' who he was four years old, and here she married Mr. Hawthorne, | J rector of the Boys' High School*-.-- I | Charles was educated here andvjttar^ ^ ;| ried Miss Hume, a sister of Fergiis Hume, the novelist. . I ( He has always been accepteid as-.a / | New Zealand composer. '' ' Wellington, Tues'd^^.^f ' > ;!•! Mr. S. P. Hawthorne, of Welling- || ton, who is the half-brother of Charles Willeby, the composer, says that Willeby was fiorn in France, and came to New Zealand when he was ahout five years old. Ahout five years later he went to England, and returned to New Zealand in 188b with his . | mother, Mrs. Stuart Hawthorne, and f [j. two half-hr others. * ;'! |ll He was well known in Wellington T as a music teacher. . If ' ■ 1 About 1889 he went to Italy and j had never been back to New Zealand. | l
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 623, 30 August 1933, Page 5
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189NOT NEW ZEALANDER Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 623, 30 August 1933, Page 5
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