CAMBRIAN SOCIETY

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30879, 12 October 1965, Page 2

CAMBRIAN SOCIETY

A feast of music was enjoyed by an attentive audience of members and friends et a Cambrian Society social recently. In the absence of the president (Mr G. Manning), Mrs Mvra Thomson welcomed Professor G. M. Petersen, who has recently arrived in Christchurch to take the second chair of mathematics at the University of Canterbury. Professor Petersen, who was educated in California, took a doctorate in science at the University of Wales, and has been a reader in mathematics at the University of Swansea. Later in the evening Mr S. Selby was welcomed. Mr Selby comes from Canada, but was born near Mr Manning’s borne town near Swansea. He was for some years concert master of the Nanaimo Symphony Orchestra on Vancouber Island, British Columbia. The programme, sponsored by Mr E. Rogers, was given by Mrs J. Mason’s party. Items included instrumental trios with Mrs J. Mason, piano. Miss R. Griffiths, violin and Miss M. Chapman, cello, vocal duets by Mesdames K Swallow and E. Williams, and vocal solos by Messrs D. Bishop and J. Mason.