SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16479, 24 March 1919, Page 8

SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS.

ANNUAL MEETING,

The annual meeting of the Society of Professional Musicians was hehi in the Durham street Church parlour on Saturday night, Mr Arthur Merton presiding over a small attendance.

The secretary (Mr Sidney Williamson) said that ten new members had been elected during the year, bringing tho roll number to sixty-nine. .The receipts, including a balance brought forward of £21 17s 3d, were £66 17s 10dj and the expenditure £64 4s 6d, including a sum of £50 8s invested in war loan certificates and £5 5s voted to the rf music. Tito assets consisted of £120 in inscribed stock, and £50 8s in war loan certificates. '

Mr Morton said that the financed of the society .were never better, but members still 6eemed to . tliink that "something shoruld be done." Unfortunately the members took very little interest in any innovations, and the council during the year had merely concentrated on finance, without trying to bring the members together. Ho was hopeful, however, that suggestions, would come from members in the direction of popularising the society, and it might- be well to have quarterly meetings. In connexion with the Hiss Yiolet' Ward Memorial Fund, he hod. received a letter from Mrs Croasdaile Bowcn, stating that the majority of the committee wished the annual scholarship to be awarded to the> candidate who gained the highest number of marks in the senior practical examination of the' Associated Board in Christchurch, conditionally upon the candidate entering for the teacher's final examination and taking up teaching as a profession. The committee in charge ot the fund would bo glad if the society would administer the fund. The scholarship was valued at £5 a year. The report was adopted, and it was decided to t&ke over the fund as suggested. . Officers were elected as follows:—President, Mr Davis Hunt; vice-preeidcnt. Mr A. Merton; council, Misses Amos and Searell, ami MeasrsErcest Firth and Bum; secretary acu treasurer, Mr S. Williamson.