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Work done at the tower by the engineers, Messrs. N. W. Thomas and Co., Ltd. r has included the regrinding of the solenoid valves and renewal of pistons and rubber cushions on the automatic playing-apparatus ; renewal of the holding bolts on nineteen of the smaller bells; the enclosure and remounting on rubber of the motor, generator, and air-compressor ; the renewal of the driving-belts on the generator and aircompressor ; and general maintenance of the mechanism by monthly visits. The enclosure of the air-compressor has been particularly successful in reducing mechanical noise in the clavier chamber. The general efficiency of the mechanism may now be said to be better than ever before, thanks to the painstaking and understanding efforts of the' engineers. Now, thanks to the initial report furnished by Mr. W. Page, much-needed repairs are to be made to the tower by the Board of Trustees. These, which will be carried out immediately, will provide improved access to the bell chambers in place of the present ladder-like structures ; replacement by wire mesh of the former wire-netting enclosing the lift and covering the openings in the tower which has largely wasted away owing to weather conditions ; better provision for housing the lift machinery against atmospherical effects ; and repairs where necessary to the tower itself. All these improvements and repairs are essential, and the Management Committee expresses its appreciation of the action of the Board of Trustees in ordering them to be carried out. The Management Committee also has much pleasure in reporting that during the year satisfactory progress has been made towards the appointment of a fully qualified Carillonist within three years' time. On the Board of Trustees undertaking that if, under the rehabilitation scheme, a New Zealand serviceman in the Second World War became fully qualified in carillon playing he would be given the appointment of official Carillonist at a salary of £4OO per annum, the Rehabilitation Board decided to offer a bursary for the training of a man in this specialized art, and called for applications from ex-servicemen throughout the Dominion, a special condition attached being that preference would be given to a competent pianist or organist. At the same time the Rehabilitation Board made arrangments through the High Commissioner, London, for the training of the bursar at the School of Carillonists, Malignes, Belgium, the only school of its kind in the world and at which the late Miss Gladys Watkins, first official Carillonist at Wellington, obtained her diploma with distinction in 1930. Nine applications were received. The conditions of appointment, upon qualification, to the position of Carillonist at Wellington having been laid down by the Carillon Management Committee, a joint committee of representatives of the Rehabilitation Board and the Board of Trustees met to consider the applications, and unanimously agreed to the award of the bursary to Mr. Selwyn Baker, of Christchurch. Mr. Baker, who served for three and a half years in the New Zealand Infantry with the Eighth Army in the North African, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns, is a thoroughly competent organist, and the Carillon Management Committee has the fullest confidence that he will duly qualify and prove a worthy successor to the late Miss Watkins. He left by the " Rangitiki" in August to undertake a two years' course of instruction at Malignes, and before his departure spent a week in Wellington in familiarizing himself with the Carillon and Miss Watkins' Carillon Music Library. Upon qualifying and taking up his appointment in Wellington he will be required to train other aspirants in carillon-playing so that continuity in competency of playing will be assured for future generations. Further representations regarding the completion of the National War Memorial on the Mount Cook site have been made to the Board of Trustees by the Carillon Management Committee and have been referred to the Government. Ernest E. Mtjir, Chairman. - John G. Osborne, Hon. Secretarv.

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