A WORTHY AIM.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15312, 13 August 1923, Page 6

A WORTHY AIM.

WORK OF MUSICIANS' SOCIETY,

ACTIVITIES—PAST AND PRESENT,

The president of the Wellington Society of .Musicians, Mr. 11, Temple White, presided over the annual meeting of that body. Speaking to the annual report the secretary, Mr. P. G. Gray, stated that it was desirable that members should take a keener interest in the activities of the society. It would bo quite possible for the "society to become a large and inflenutial body. It has occurred, some time ago that a member resigned in view of the fact that he considered that the society "dkl nothing." This was not the spirit, said the speaker, to meet the occasion, and if members would only decide to put more work into the body's welfare a more prosperous state of affairs would result. The necessity for an Act of Parliament concerning the registration of musical societies throughout the Dominion was also stressed by the secretary. Such on Act would not only do "away with the possibility of "bogus" teachers practising in Ihe profession, but also tend lo raise the standard of music throughout the Dominion. It was also suggested that a central body of musicians be set up to issue a diploma to all who were desirous of teaching music. This wuold lend to make parents think twice liefore they sent their children lo learn from a teacher.