MEDALS AND PRIZES

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 250, 19 July 1935, Page 3

MEDALS AND PRIZES

Trinity College of Music

It is announced on behalf of the Trinity College of Music, in reference to the gold medals and prizes for 1934, which were awarded at the recent examinations and presented by the examiner, Mr. Adolph Mann, that the full list is now to hand. The list, which follows, shows the winners (and also those candidates having obtained higher marks but who did not qualify owing to the age regulations):— Gold Medallists. Diploma: Maxzeen Stevens (Miss M. Dillon), 80. Higher local: Dorothy Downing (Mrs. E. Mackay), 91 hons. Senior: Yolande Bitossi (Mrs. W. G. McCartie), 83 hons. Intermediate: Ngaere Higher (Mrs. E. Mackay), 9S hons. Junior: Myra Nichol (Miss A. Duff), 94 hons. In the senior grade the following candidates were not eligible owing to the above reasons:—Reginald C. Madden (Mr, H. G, Cook) 1 ’ 90 hons; Ruth Allan (Miss D. Prouse), 84 hons; Irene Wilsop (Miss M. Crawford), 84 hons; Lorna Gandy (Miss A. G. Wright), 83 hons. In the intermediate grade, Paul Magill (Mrs. E. Mackay) obtained OS marks, but tlie medal went to the younger candidate, Ngaere Highet. Prizes. Preparatory: Junior Farrell (MifS Fitzgerald), 92 hons; first steps: Mary. Josephine Gore (Brougham Street Convent), 85 hons. In the first steps grade candidates Alexander Cottrell (Lower Hutt Convent), SS hons, Margaret Tustin (St. Vincent do Paul Convent), 86 hons, and Betty Noble (Miss M. Gaynor), 85 hons. were not eligible owing to a_ge regulations. New Grades. Three new grades were introduced by the college last year—advanced senior, advanced preparatory, and initial —but owing to insufficient entries the local committee deemed it inadvisable to award prizes. The following candidates obtained highest marks in the new grades: —Advanced senior: Ailsa Maplesden (Miss V. Boesley), 87 hons; advanced preparatory. Brian Cook (Miss E. Clark), 96 hons; initial: Margaret Williams (Convent. Lower Hutt), 88 hons.