PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. S. F. Burgess and Mr. C. H. Burgess left for Auckland yesteday on account of the death of the father of Mr. S. F. Burgess, which took place on Tuesday. The British Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, will return from Cornwall at the week-end and hopes to attend the House of Commons on Monday, states a British Official Wireless message. He has recovered from hie eye trouble.

Flying-Officer W. E. Hooper, of the Royal Air Force, has been appointed Adjutant of No. 99 B Squadron, Upper Heyford, Oxford. He is a son of Mr. and. Mrs. R. Hooper, Vogeltown, and has been in th© Air Force for a little over 18 months.

Messrs. S. A. Black and G. Sullivan left yesterday for Auckland to take part in the New Zealand athletic championship meeting which takes place tomorrow and Saturday. Miss A. O’Byrne, who will also take part in the meeting, joined the Hawera ladies and left for Auckland yesterday. Mr. Herman Maier Lund, whose death is reported, had been a teacher of music in Christchurch since about' 18'80 and musical critic of th© Press for more than 25 years. He was born at Hamburg, Germany, in August, 1847. His education in music began while he was still a child and was finished under Madame Schumann. Before he was 20 years of age he was teaching musk and wrote criticisms for a Berlin newspaper. He was known to Brahms and Wagner and- had often heard Listz and Rubenstein play. Before his departure for New Zealand he visited England and won there th© friendship of Charles Halle, the ’ distinguished founder "f the (Halle Orchestra, Manchester. Mr. Lund arrived in New Zealand early in the ’seventies and settled in Invercargill. In a short time, however, he returned to Christchurch and began the teaching of piano and singing, which he continued to within a year of his death. It was Sir Julius von Haast, Mr. Lund said, ■who persuaded him to remain in New ■Zealand. Mr. Lund found in Christchurch an active - Harmonic Society au<. deep appreciation of music among the m-re ■cultured families of the day. At ”erent times he conducted for various societies in Invercargill and Christchurch, and was founder of the Canterbury Society of Professional Musicians, being its secretary from 1695 to 1901. In August, 1927, on his 80th birthday, the musical societies of Christchurc) .and many of his friends and former pupils held a public gathering in honour of Mr. Lund’s 50 years of work. Early in the following year, and again in 1930, he gave piano recitals.