State Awards For Training In Arts

Press, Volume CI, Issue 30011, 21 December 1962, Page 19

State Awards For Training In Arts

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, December 20. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Gotz) today announced awards for training in the arts, teachers’ awards and travel awards for 194X1. Mr Gotz congratulated the successful applicants and said that he hoped the awards would encourage others interested in the arts to strive for future awards. Applications for 1964 awards would open early next year, he said. A teachers’ award of £lOOO for one year’s specialist studiies overseas will be made to Mr B. P. F. Smith, Auckland. Partial teachers’ awards of £5OO and £250 respectively will be made to Miss Bettina Edwards, a ballet teacher, of Auckland, and Miss Susanne Green, a school music teacher, of Wellington. Short-term travel awards worth £7OO will be made to | Mirek Simisek, a potter of Nelson, John Thomson, speech and drama teacher (Auckland). Alex Lindsay, violinist and conductor, and Russell Bond, critic, both of Wellington. Ballet Training Overseas awards of £5OO a year for two years, plus a £125 grant in aid of travel, and of £250 for six months, plus £125 grant in aid of travel, to Marilyn Williams (Wellington) and Christine Smith (Auckland) respectively. Awards of fees for daily classes for one year in New Zealand, plus £lO towards the cost of ballet shoes, to Marilyn Burns, Sherril Cooper, Annaibel Murray, Susan Horsham and Anne Hones of Wellington, Lee McMenamin of Christchurch, and Jennifer Shennan, Auckland. Drama Overseas awards of £5OO a year for two years, plus £125 grant in aid of travel, will be made to Eric Woofe, Auckland, and Barbara Laurenson, Wellington; and of £5OO for one year, plus £125 grant in aid of travel, to Barry Leighton, Wellington. Bruce Woods, Auckland, will receive £3OO plus fees, for one year, to commence the three-year course in design at Wellington Polytechnic. Visual Arts An award of £5OO a year for three years for training overseas, plus £125 grant in aid of travel, will be made to Bryan Dew, Auckland. Overseas training awards of £5OO for one year, plus £125 grant in aid of travel will go to Nicholas Reed, Christ-

church, Claire Boocock, Auckland, and John Panting, Blenheim. Barry Brickell. Coromandel, will receive £5OO for one year to undertake special research studies in ceramics in New Zealand. Music Two overseas awards of £5OO a year for two years, plus £125 grant in aid of travel, will be made to David Bollard and Rebecca Harris. Auckland, and one of £5OO for one year, plus £125 grant in aid of travel, to Robin Maconie, Wellington. Awards for training in New Zealand: £lB5 to Michael Brunsden, Auckland; £ 100 to Patrick Flynn, Auckland; £75 to Josephine Burry, Auckland; and Margaret Cody, Masterton. Extended Awards A number of existing awards will be extended and additional grants made in the visual arts. The award for overseas training to lan Mackintosh, Wellington, will be extended for a fourth year at £5OO. Anna Pascoe, Wellington, will receive fees for a second year of training in New Zealand plus £6O, and £BO boarding allowance, and Mark Cleverley, Hamilton, will receive £5OO for a second year’s training in New Zealand.

In music, a grant of £2OO will be made to Jacqueline Stone, Wanganui, to supplement the third year of her scholarship at the Royal College of Music. Robert Davis, Whangarei, will receive an award of £75 for a second year of training in New Zealand.