Noisy Church Bells.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19237, 26 November 1930, Page 8

Noisy Church Bells.

To the Editor. Dear Sir,—l am much obliged to Archdeacon. Taylor for his considerate note, I am glad that St Luke’s is not the offender. In justice to those who are not responsible for this early Sunday morning disturbance, I propose to find out where the noise comes from. As for the gibes of your other correspondents, I am afraid they do not live near the nuisance. Let me explain myself. I do not object to church bells. Those early tollings, that last for a second or two and then cease—such as we hear softly from the Roman Catholic Cathedral, or even jarringly from St Michaels—do not wake one up, or if they do, do not bring wakefulness. But a persistent clanging for fifteen minutes before 8 a.m. is an offence and an impertinence in a mixed community like this, where even the Anglicans do not respond, one in a hundred, to the noisy summons. I am of another communion, which has nothing whatever to learn about church attendance, and I go to church at 11 am. I resent a deliberate awakening on my day of rest at an hour that robs me of rest. —I am, etc., HOW MANY GO?