MUSICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2857, 16 December 1908, Page 27

MUSICAL EXAMINATIONS.

ASSOCL\TED BOARD RESULTS

I The following are the results (unofficial) jof the- 1908 local examinations just coni eluded by Mr Thomas F. Dunhill, examiner ■ for the Associate d Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, London: — LICENTIATE ASSOCIATED BOARD (L.A.8.). Performers' Certificates. Pianoforte. — Miss Audrey Stock and Miss Lily Price, Invercargill (Mrs Blanche Levi, A.X.A.M., L.R.A.M.); Louie W. Middleton (Mr Max Scherek) ; Florence Carrington (Miss Edith Hoffmaa).; Alda Ralph (St. Dominic's Priory). "Violin. — Helen Kirk Walker (Signor Squariae). Primary Division. Edwin Horace Fyfe 100 (Miss Muriel Adams), Joyce A. Maxwell 125 and Jane i Linger Passmorc 116 (Miss J. C. Brown), Rose Marguerite Hartley 120 (Mrs Willia<n Collie, Museelburgh), Neaira Smith 106 (Mke Nellie Giles), Dorothea Hall 103, singing (Mr Mai t land Gand'aer), Gwenyth L. H. Fulton 116 and Louie Esquilant 105 (Mke K. E. Gardner, L.A.8.), Clara, S. ■L. Austin 100 (Miss Jean Imrie, Port Chalmers), Myrtle J. Fraser 121 (Miss K. . E. Nieper, Alexandra), ELsie Squires 126, I Edith BanweM 116 and Freda Valentine . 108 (Misa Olive F. G. Porteoue), Olive ! Leith 118 and Hazel Smith 108 (Mise Ger- • trude Pitts, L.A.B. and A.T.C.L.), Dorothy j E. Clarke 123 (Mies N. F. Ridley), Leslie ' L. Hunt 126 (St Hilda's Collegiate School, j Miss A. Hill Jack), Mary Brennan 130 (dis- ' tincrion), Cedric Daweon 127, Kathleen j M'Devitt 124 and May Curtin 114 (Sisters ' of Mercy Convent, South Dunodin), Meredith May StrciMch 116 (Mrs Frank Stronaeh, Waikouaiti), Fred Thomas 130, distinction (Mise A. E. Smith), Ida E. Paterson 131, distinction (Miss Marie Ethel I Wood). Elementary Division. Ewen P. Cameron 102 (Mies Murial Adanio), Stanley Lawson 116 (Mrs William ' Collie), Mary Brown 102 (Mrs E. Felming- | ham), Eileen Sladc 130, distinction (Mice Nellie A. Giles), Mary Lyon Brown 112 , (Mius V. B. Johnston, Port Chalmers), Cora i M. Manning 121 and Brenda C. Kilgour 117 (iliss Margaret Lees, Port Chalmers), Robma Cook 121 (M-re H. Miller, St. I Leonards), Ethel Wilkinson 122 and Elsie 1 Charnley 122 (Mies Olive F. G. Porteous), Gordon Dick 112, violin (Mifjs Sarah ! Parker), Myrtle Stanley 131 (distinction), Ivy Willis 124 and Annie Shaddock 112 (Miss Gertrude Pitts), Alberta Gillies 124 and Notfa Gillies 120 (Braemar House j School, Mies B. Miller), Mary Alicia Tothilr 119 (St. Hilda's,' Misa A. Hill Jack), Adelaide Christie -116 and Gwendoline Milton 113 (St. Hilda's, Mies K. E. Gardner. L.A.8.), Mary Kovale-vske 111 (Sisters of ! I Mercy, Mosgiel), Roee Fitzpatrick 130 (dis- | fciuction), Isabel McDowell 125, Nora Mcc 125 and MaTy O'Kane (Sisters of Mercy Convent, South Dimed-m), Jeesie H. C. Christie 136, distinction (Mies E. Wright), George William Wilson 125, Bertha Eileen Wilson 121, TTrederiek Smith 119 and Murielle Mary Wilson 117 (Miss J. Yoreton), Jessie Sonn'tag 131 (distinction), Doly Godby 128, Dorothy Sweeney 127 and Mary Wileon 127 (St. Dominic's Priory). Singing : Irene Ford 124, Dorothy Peters 120, Lavinia E. Broom 109 and Jean Gow 103 (Mr Maitland Gardner). Higher School Division. Marian Bush 104 (Mr E. L. Ashby), Williarnina Shearer 110 (Braemar House, Mr 1 W. E. Taylor, F.R.C.0.). Nora Hislop 109 j and Heather Cunningham 101 (Braemar | House, Miss B. Miller), Kathleen H. Lawlor 132, hinging, distinction (Mr Maitland Gardner); Irene Withers 107 (Miss K. E. Gardner), Winifred Stella Perry 101 (Mies Phyliss Perry), Florence Pearce 125 (Miss Sarah Parker), Molly Carmody 130 (distinction), Mice Violet Patrick (Waitahuna) and Olive J. M. White 122 (Mies Annie Paton, L.A.B. and A.T.C.L.), Doric Dempster 114 (Miss Gertrude Pitts), Hilda M. M'Donald 126 (St. Hilda's, Mr A. Vallis), Fiances M. Blake 120, Eileen B. Farley 114, Chrietobel N. Grigg 112, Dorothy M. Willis 110, and Emmeline S. Chapman 108 (St. Hilda's, Miss K. E. Gardner) Dorothy Standiland 111 (St. HUda'e, Mies J. C. Longford, L.A.8.), Violet Watson 120 (Mies Aubrey F. StoekJ, Alison May Tucker 135 (distinction), Frank F. Bennett 131 (distinction), Doris N. Dempster 126 and John Hadden Barr 125 (Miss Yorston), Leslie Wyinks 134 (distinction) and Elsie Paton 134, distinction (Sfc. Dominic's Priory). Lower School Division. Eva Carson 113 (Mr E. L. Ashby), Daisy Miller 118 (Braemar House, Miss Stewarr), Aimee Borrie 114, Hilda Bowler 111, Rose Sutherland 108, and Ida Morris 100 (Braemar School, Miss Miller), Lottie Wallace 108 (Misa V. B. Johnston, Port Chalmers), Laura Pearce 119 (Miss J. C. Longford), Marjory Collins 126 (Mis 3 Mary M'Mullin, A.T.C.L., Roxburgh), Rose Annette White 119 (Miss Minnie Paton), Lily Clark 112 (Mies Gertrude Pitts), Frances Holland 117, Marjorie Phillips 104, and Gladys Thomson 103 (St. Hilda's, Miss K. E. Gardner), Frances H. Bowler 122 (Mi«s Audrey F. Stock), Leslie George Tyrie 133, distinction (Miy Yor->ton). LOCAL CENTRE EXAMINATIONS. Intermediate Division. Helen E. Griffiths 114 (Mr E. L. Ashb.v). Elespie Todd 112 (Braomar House, Miss B. Miller), Nasula Mary Tucker 121 (Mi=s May Chalmer). Gwendoline M. A. O'Cj.llaghan 104, singing', Vida Wafers 135, honours singing (Mr Maitland Gardner), Kathleen Rose Levi 142, honour, and Vera Moore 136, honours (Mrs Blanche Levi), Valeric Corliss 134, honours (Miss J. C. Longford), Dora M. Shortcliffe 130, honours (St. Hilda's, Mr A. Vallis), P^Da C. Burry 121 (St. Hilda's. Mr W. E. Taylor). Dorothy Dick 18 (St. Hilda's, Mies K. K. Gardner). Marjorie E. Harper 119 (Mr W. E. Taylor), Gwendoline Tyrrell 126 (Mr Jesse Tinwon), Annie W. M. Gla<=s<? 137, honours. Ebie M. M'Dougall 136, honours, Grace D. Mowat 123, and Madge Emrie 126 (Mis? Yorston), Winnie Haworidge 130, honours (St. Dominic's Priory). Advanced Division. Mary Hamilton 119, Phyllis Perry 119, and Aileen Moore 114 (Braemar House, Miss B. Miller), Kitty B. Bridger 127, violin (Mr James Coombs). Florence Foster 130, honours (Miss K. E. Gardner), Aimee Champion 135, honours (Mrs Blanch Levi), Grace Watson 115, Hilda Veale 109, (Miss 1 J. C. Longford), Eileen M'Kay 123, viojin, ' and Doris B. MTherson 111, violin (Sig-

nor Squarise), Dorothy I. Cowie 137, honours, - Dora Dorrington 130, honours, examined at Hokitika, Florence M'Donald 119 (Mr A. Vallis), Ann Richards 116 (Mies M. Woods, L.R.A.M., Lawrence), Helen M'Cartcr 128, Ethol Jolly 124, Francie Whiting 122, and Florence Anderson 116 (Miss Yorston), Mary J. O'Connell 114 (St. Dominic's Priory). INTERVIEW WITH THE EXAMINER. A COMPLIMENT TO DUNEDIN MUSIC TEACHERS. Mr Thos. F. Dunhill, who has just concluded a tour of the Dominion, conducting examinations at various centres for the Associated Board of the R.A.M. and R.C.M, 13 a professor of the Royal College of Music. Speaking- to a Daily Times reporter on the Bth, Mt Dunhill expressed himself as exceedingly pleased with the work that has come under his notice all over New Zealand.. He is especially pleased with the results in Dunedin, considering the large uumber of successes in the more advanced examinations. He had as many as 10 solo performers for the highest examination that is conducted in the colonies, and a large proportion of theso had not only been successful, but had come through the ordeal with flying colours.

" That fact speaks well," continued Mr Dunhill, "not only for the high standard of tho "teaching, but for the extent of the •efficiency to which the teachers arc able to carry the pupils. It is certainly a point to b© commended in Dunedin that the teachers should be so competent to carry qn_the work of pupils to the most advanced stages." Enlarging on the same matter, the examinei- remarked that the best work in Dunedin compared more than favourably with that in any of the centres he had visited in England.

" I have enjoyed my trip in New Zealand very much," went on Mr Dunhill. " Everybody I have met seems to have made it their business to give me a good time, and I have thoroughly enjoyed myself. I feel exceedingly grateful to the people for the hospitality they have kindly extends to me, an i I hope ' that on another occasion I shall return to renow friendships that made when I visited New Zealand two years ago.'