CARILLON SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 16

CARILLON SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING HELD

ELECTION OF OFFICERS

The .ninth1 annual meeting of the National War Memorial Carillon Society was held on. Wednesday evening, there being a good attendance. Lieutenant-Colonel A. Cowles, chairman of the general committee, presided.

The chairman, in presenting the annual report, referred to the many distinguished visitors, notably Sir Alexander and Lady Godley, who had visited the Carillon during the year, and to the special services held. The visitors, he said, all commended the fine character of the memorial, and he expressed the hope that when the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum were completed in June or July next the carillon would lake its rightful place in the hearts of the community.

The balance-sheet showed a credit balance of £189 as at the end of September, ' and it was stated that since then a further £300 had been received from the Government as part of the proceeds of one of the recent art unions, thus placing the society on a sound financial footing. Mr. E. E. Muir was thanked for his efforts in raising funds for the carillon, this having been largely instrumental in keeping the bells playing. BROADCASTING RECITALS. The hope was expressed that recitals would be broadcast more regularly in future, and it was stated that a recent experimental broadcast had been very satisfactory. The chairman staled that during the year the different organisations which had donated special bells to the carillon had been invited to appoint their own representatives on the executive, and all had complied, thus strengthening the executive and adding to its representative character. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop; vice-presidents, Messrs. S. Kirkcaldie, L. O. H. Tripp, C. J. B. Norwood, G. A. Troup. Sir Alexander Young; hon. solicitor, Mr. E. A. R. Jones; hon. auditor, Mr. A. J. McLennan; hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr. John G. Osborne; general committee, Lieut-Colonel A. Cowles (chairman), Messrs. H. D. Bennett, H. I Graves, H. Temple White, J. I. Goldsmith, E. E. Muir, R. Tait, G. N. Slurtevant, E. S. Baldwin, W. M. Page, Major P. de Brandon, Messrs. E. A. R. Jones, J. Eur-goyne-Thomas, R. Johnson, W. Stuart Wilson, Dr. F. T. Bowerbank, Mr. J. Halliwell, Captain Clark, Messrs. E. C. Hale, B. A. Moore, Colonel C. H. Weston, Colonel O. H. Mead. Colonel C. E. Butcher, Captain C. M. Bishop, Mr. E. D. Cachemaille. Mrs. E. J. Moore, Mrs. M. H. Chatfield, Miss Bicknell; executive committee, Lieut.-Colonel A. Cowles. Miss Bicknell, Messrs. E. E. Muir, R. Johnson, R. Tait. E. C. Hale, B. A. Moore, Major P. de Brandon, Mr. E. D. Cachemaille. Colonel O. H. Mead, Colonel C. E. Butcher, Colonel C. H. Weston. Captain Clark. A letter was received from the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery and Dominion Museum stating jthat when the carillon was vested in the board by Act of Parliament it was proposed to create a special management committee for the control of the carillon, comprising two members of the Board of Trustees and three representatives' of the Carillon- Society, ! whose nominations were asked for. It i was decided to nominate Colonel Cowles and Messrs. E. E. Muir and E. C. Hale as the society's representatives, arid to suggest to the Board of Trustees that the number be increased on account of the amount of work necessary to be done. WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM. The chairman stated that Dr. Oliver, director of the Dominion Museum, had informed him that there would be no military court in the Dominion Museum, and that there was a good deal of historic war material available. It was decided to appoint a subcommittee, comprising the military members of the executive and Mr. Muir, to confer -with Dr. Oliver to make a selection from the material available with a view to housing the same in the three vacant chambers in the war memorial tower and in the Hall of Memories when it was erected in completion of the design of the whole group of buildings. 1.1 was stated that a number of historic pictures of the carillon at Newcastle-on-Tync and in Hyde Park, London, would be available for this purpose.

The members present stood in silence as a mark of respect to the memory of three members of the general committee- who had.passed away during the year—Mr. J. M. Geddis (vice-president). Mr. E. G. Pilcher (hon. treasurer for several years), and Mrs. E. E. Muir.

Votes of thanks were passed to the chairman, the hon. secretary and treasurer, the carillonist (Miss Gladys Watkins), and to the technician (Mr. W. A. Duncan) for their services during the past year.