THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 120, 17 April 1930, Page 2

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

AWARDS GRANTED. The Associated Board of the Royal Academy ot Music and the Royal College of Music, London, advises that it has made the following awards,of exhibitions and medals to candidates who eat for examinations last year:— Exhibitioners. —This award has been given to the following three candidates who are thus entitled to not lees than two years’ free musical tuition at the Royal Academv or the Royal College of Music: Miss Grete Jesperson (late of Palmerston North), violoncello; Miss Mary Crawshaw (New Plymouth), pianoforte; Master Noel C. Newson (Christchurch), pianoforte. The first two of the above three awards are tenable at the Royal Academy London, and the third at the Royal College, London. . The following have been adjudged medallists : —Final grade, gold medal: Miss Marjorie E. Alexander (Christchurch), pianoforte. Advanced grade, gold medal: Miss Kathleen Hynes (Stratford), pianoforte. Advanced grade, silver medal: Miss Lillian Chalker (Pukekohe), pianoforte. The final grade silver medal and the intermediate grade medals cannot be awarded, as no candidates have qualiPrizes of £25 each for highest marks in the licentiate examinations have been awarded to Miss Mamie Reid (Auckland), pianoforte, for the Ngrth Island, and to Master Noel C. Newson (Christchurch), pianoforte, for the South Island. Local exhibitions of £ls and £lO each have been granted to Gordon V. Anderson (Christchurch), pianoforte, in the advanced grade, and to Miss Mary C. . Morrison (Christchurch), pianoforte, in the intermediate grade. The Violet Ward prize, Christchurch, was awarded to Marjorie E. Alexander, final grade, pianoforte, and Noel G. Newson performer’s pianoforte, who were placed equally.