CON SERVATION OF MUSIC.
(From Our Own Coerespondekt.) AUCKLAND, March 22. The proposed establishment ox a Conservatoriuia of Music in New Zealand was brought under the notice of the Auckland University College Council yesterday by a letter from Mr Louis Cohen, of Wangamii, who wrote on behalf of the Recess Committee which was recently appointed by the Senate of the University pf New Zealand asking what encouragement the Auckland Council would give to the proposal. In furtherance of a suggestion by the chairman (Sir Maurice O'Rourke) to refer the matter to a committee to report, Mr C. J. Pa.iT thought that the committee might suggest reasons in favour of Auckland being made the site of the conservatorium. It was generally understood that in the matter of music the city stood first in New Zealand. The chairman remarked that it did EO when he arrived 50 years ago. Mr G. L. Peacock expirereed the belief that this was the only university college in New Zealand which had a professor of music. The Registrar (Canon Nelson) remarked that Canterbury College had a lecturer in music. The matter was referred to a committee..
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Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 3
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190CONSERVATION OF MUSIC. Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 3
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