"ANOTHER MELBA"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 August 1939, Page 5

"ANOTHER MELBA"

AIM OF SCHOLARSHIP

COMPETITIONS EVENT

One of 38 young women competing | in a senior vocal section at the Wei-J lington .competitions may win a trip J to Australia and the chance to sing j against the picked singers of the Commonwealth for the Dame Nellie Melba Bequest Scholarship, which carries a bursary of £300 a year for two years, with the possibility of a further year. The scholarship came into being in accordance with the terms of a special bequest by Dame Melba, who bequeathed £8000 for th* encouragement of "another Melba." The fund, is administered by the Melbourne Conservatorium, and the interest from it is devoted to maintaining the ! scholarship. It is open to women of 17 years and over with trained or untrained voices, and trials are held in Melbourne every second year. "Through consideration of expense entailed by possible entrants, the Direqtor of the Melbourne Conservatorium, Mr. Harold A. Elvins, has initiated a scheme of holding elimination contests in distant States like Western Australia and Queensland, and has asked the Wellington Competitions Society to hold an elimination contest for. New Zealand," states an explanatory note in the society's programme for the current festival. "This has been arranged, and a number of other societies are co-operating in arranging district elimination contests, with their finalists competing in Wellington."