CANTERBURY HALL.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —As comments have frequently been made on the acoustic properties! of the Canterbury Hall, would you kindly give publication to the enclosed letter, just received from Dr Torrey?—l am, etc., H. H. SECRETAN, Secretary. (Enclosure.) Dunedin, New Zealand, Sept. 26, 1902. To secretary, Canterbury Hall Company, ChristchiiTch. Dear Sir, —Let mo say that the Canterbury Hall is one of the very best to speak in that I have ever known. II found that I. could speak in it with the! greatest ease, a.ndrbe heard in-every part of! it, and! even far out into-the corridors. There was no strain on the voice. In some buildings vou have to study for some time to find! out just what the defects are, but in the Canterbury Hall I had no difficulty from, the very first; Speaking three or four times a day in a large auditorium is generally a heavy strain on a man's voice, but I found no difficulty whatever in your Shall.—Sincerely yours, R-. A. TORREY.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12934, 30 September 1902, Page 2
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