MUSIC IN SCHOOLS.
>'BW SUPERVISOR ARRIVES. (PRCSS AMOCUTIO* nUOBiU.) AUCKLAND, April 20. The supervisor selected by the New Zealand Government for the new Musical Branch of the Education Department, Mr K. D. • Taylor, F.R.C.0., A.K.C.M.. arrived from England by tlie Homiipra. While he could not say without going over the ground and consulting with the educational authorities what form Lis teaching would take, ho mentioned that lie favoured the teaching of folk sfngs and national songs ns a basis of the musical training of children, ant! favoured the association of the movement with music rather than that children, should stand stiffly in rows while singing. He would go over the ground and see what had been done in the mattrr of singing in schools, and would then probably formulate a plan for the consideration of the authorities. Ife is a young man, keenly interested in his rtrt, "and with his wife has formed an ntlachtaent for colonial life. This coipes of their experiences in South .Africa.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18671, 21 April 1926, Page 14
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