TEACHERS OF MUSIC.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, January 25. About 40 delegates attended the annual conference to-day of the New Zealand Society of Professional Teachers of Music. Mr R. Parker presided. In an address Professor Shelley said if he had the choice of turning either music or mathematics out of the primary schools, he certainly would turn out mathematics. STATE INSTRUCTORS. PROTEST AGAINST COMPETITION. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, January 25. Resentment was expressed at the conference against musical instructors brought to the Dominion entering into competition with private teachers. Several speakers urged that it was unfair that these instructors; receiving a salary from the State, should also accept positions as organists, choirmasters, conductors ot musical societies and such^ positions usually held by professional musicians in private Pl It Ct \vas finally decided that representations should bo‘made to the Education Department that it was unfair for servants ot the department to compete with professional musicians. _____
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20316, 26 January 1928, Page 10
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