LECTURESHIP IN MUSIC

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24749, 14 December 1945, Page 8

LECTURESHIP IN MUSIC

- — «— MR F. J. PAGE APPOINTED TO VICTORIA COLLEGE

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 13. Classes in music will be introduced for the first time to Victoria University College next year. The college council, at a meeting to-night, approved the appointment of Mr F. J. Page, Mus.Bac. (N.Z.), of Chrislchurch. to the first lectureship in music. He will take up his duties in February. Mr Page, who was born in Lyttelton and educated at the; Christchurch Boys’ High School, in 1935 gained a

special scholarship enabling him to study at the Royal College of Music, London. He distinguished himself as a student, and in more recent years was for some time acting-lecturer in music-at Canterbury University College.

The college council has accepted the resignation of Professor J. Rankine Brown from the chair of classics from January 31, and appointed him professor emeritus from that date, in recognition of his long service to the college. He was one of the foundation professors appointed in 1809 The council appointed Mr W. S. Metcalf. M.Sc., Mus.Bac., of the Department of Agriculture, Wellington, as lecturer in physical chemistry, the position to which Mr G. I. Israel of the University of Tasmania, had been appointed, but which he advised he could not now accept. A decision was not reached on the appointments to lectureships in geography, political science, and physics.