MUSICAL EDUCATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 34, 23 January 1912, Page 7

MUSICAL EDUCATION.

DISCUSSED BY UNIVERSITY SENATE.

(Per Press Association.! Wellington, January 22. Reference was made in the University Chancellor’s address to the qiiestion of some agreement being come to with Australia regarding musical examinations and to the possibility of a representative from Melbourne University being pesent. During the sitting of the Senate to-day the Chancellor intimated that a Melbourne representative would not be present and- expressed the opinion that it would be useless getting people over from Australia in existing circumstances. The Government, so far as could be discovered, had not yet moved in the matter of making a grant to the Auckland College towards the establishment of a Conservatorium of Music in that city.

The Inspector-General explained that the position taken up by the Government was thgt it did not feel justified in moving iipjdio matter, .until the movement had been recognised by the University itself. The sum of money asked for was, he understood, a very large one. Dr McDowell (Auckland) expressed the belief that the Senate was in complete sympathy with the desire of the Auckland University to establish a conservatorium. The amount asked for was between £2OOO and £3OOO for the first year with a diminishing subsidy for succeeding years. It was hoped that in time the conservatorium would be self-supporting.

The Senate ultimately referred the matter to a special musical committee which will sit during the present session.