MUSIC TEACHERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 49, 28 January 1932, Page 8

MUSIC TEACHERS.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, Jan. 28. Forty-five professional music teachers, including delegates from all over the Dominion, attended the annual conference yesterday of the Music Teachers’ Association of New Zealand. Mr Harisqsi Cook, president. of the Wellington association, welcomed the delegates from, other centres. Mr Cook called for nominations for the office of president and chairman of the conference, an office which had been held last year by Mr Robert Parker, ,C.M.G., whose term of office, it appeared, had expired yesterday morning. Mr Parker was re-elect-ed unanimously as' president, and assumed the position of chairman of the meeting. Addressing the conference, Mr Parker said that a few yeeks ago he had received a letter from the Music Teachers’ Association of Great .Britain. It was a well-established institution and one which the New Zealand association might, he thought, aim to copy, and possibly to become • affiliated with. At one of the meetings of delegates, the English secretary had written, attention had been drawn to a newspaper cutting with regard to last year’s conference at Christchurch, and it had seemed to them that the" aims of the two associations were very similar. Accordingly, the English secretary sent some of the English association’s literature and asked for an. exchange of the New Zealand association’s literature, if any existed, Mr Parker read the syllabus of aims oif the English association and remarked that in substance they were precisely the same as those of the association here. . ■ s •; ' He went on to speak of the value of the New Zealand organisation and of its real benefit to teachers. Its worth and effect would become more apparent from year, to year. It was intended now, he said, to have a complete list of registered music teachers drawn up, the list to be deposited in all the musical . warehouses in the Dominion and copies supplied to all music teachers themselves. “By that means,” Mr Parker, said, “the publio will know who are the registered teachers and. who are worthy of support.” t / A . letter from the Napier Society of Musioians expressed thanks to similar societies in the Dominion for the manner in which they had come to its aid after the earthquake disaster of February 3. Subjects concerned with organisa-. tion, and particlarly with the question of uniformity of rules, were dealt with in the afternoon.