CLASSES IN MUSIC

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26026, 14 December 1945, Page 6

CLASSES IN MUSIC

VICTORIA COLLEGE INNOVATION STAFF APPOINTMENTS AND CHANGES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 13. Classes in music will be introduced for the flrat time at Victoria University College next year. The college council, at its meeting to-night, approved the appointment of Mr F. J. Page, Muc.Bac. (N.Z.), of Christchurch, to the first lectureship in music. He will take up his duties in February. Mr Page in 1935 gained a special scholarship enabling him to study at the Royal College of Music, London. He distinguished himself as a student, and in more recent years was for some time acting lecturer in music at Canterbury University College. The college council accepted the resignation of Professor J. Rankin e Brown from the chair of classics as from January 31, and appointed him professor emeritus from that date in recognition of his long service to the college. He was one of the foundation professors appointed in 1899. The council appointed Mr W. S. Metcalf, M.Sc.. Mus.Bac., of the Department of Agriculture, Wellington, as lecturer in physical chemistry, a position to which Mr G. I. Israel, of the University of Tasmania, had been appointed, but which he advised he could not now accept. A decision was not reached on the Question of appointments to lectureships in geography, political sqience, and physics.