$120.,000 A YEAR?
Auckland
Orchestra
The National Broadcasting Corporation’s decision to give the Symphonia of Auckland $40,000 a year for three years meant that the orchestra stood to earn $BO,OOO this year in subsidies from the N.Z.B.C. and the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, the arts council’s chairman (Mr W. N. Sheat) said at the week-end.
Mr Sheat said the arts council had advised the symphonia last December that it was prepared tn raise its subsidy to a maximum of $40,000 in each of the next three years. “Both subsidies are dependent on local bodies in the Auckland area being prepared to find their $40,000 share of the proposed $120,000 annual allocation,” he said. In its policy, announced last year, the council had said that it was convinced of the need for at least one fully professional orchestra in addition to the N.Z.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, Mr Sheat said.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32265, 7 April 1970, Page 8
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