When a remit advocating that children attending technical schools should take a compulsory course in music was before the Technical Schools’ Conference last week, one delegate, whose ancestors hailed from north of the Tweed, inquired how far this proposed course in music would take the students. “Tho bagpipes,” interjected another delegate. “As that is the only music in the world,” responded the first delegate, “if they don’t go as far as that they won’t bo learning real music at all.”— (Laughter.) A representative meeting at Stratford on Friday evening made preliminary arrangements for the celebration of the jubilee of the settlement of the town in March next.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3830, 9 August 1927, Page 48
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